Meaning not yet researched.
Rubi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 225 in 2025. Its best rank was #431 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #431 in 2005; #1,079 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rubi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,079 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #431.
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Rubi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 225 girls in 2025. Peak: #431 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 716 (2005).
In 2025, 225 US girls were named Rubi, making it the 1,079th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #1,090 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 227 girls named Rubi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #431, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 716. For comparison, it was #1,349 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rubi in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 8 babies. In all, 9,065 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,425 babies named Rubi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,959 US girls were named Rubi; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 240. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,143 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rubi ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #537 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ruby (379,684 babies since 1880), Rubye (6,967 babies since 1880), Rubie (5,317 babies since 1880) and Robbi (1,904 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rubi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 8 | #537 | — |
| California | 51 | #627 | #787 |
| Oregon | 5 | #716 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #742 | #938 |
| Illinois | 11 | #843 | #1,263 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #857 | — |
| New York | 17 | #942 | #1,733 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,013 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,184 | #1,029 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,254 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,319 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,345 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,414 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,843 | #934 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 225 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 2024 | 227 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 2022 | 240 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2021 | 196 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2019 | 186 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 2015 | 177 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2014 | 191 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 2013 | 188 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2012 | 203 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2011 | 216 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2010 | 303 | #878 | — | — |
| 2009 | 325 | #857 | — | — |
| 2008 | 531 | #582 | — | — |
| 2007 | 409 | #717 | — | — |
| 2006 | 471 | #618 | — | — |
| 2005 | 716 | #431 | — | — |
| 2004 | 448 | #613 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1996 | 137 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1995 | 152 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1993 | 201 | #942 | — | — |
| 1992 | 211 | #927 | 6 | #8,260 |
| 1991 | 216 | #903 | — | — |
| 1990 | 285 | #734 | 8 | #6,302 |
| 1989 | 134 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,598 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,858 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,315 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,839 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).