Meaning not yet researched.
Rue: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,241 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,241 in 2024; #1,324 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Rue in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,324 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,241.
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Rue: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,241 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 188 (2024).
In 2025, 169 US girls were named Rue, making it the 1,324th most common girls’ name of the year, down 83 places from #1,241 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 188 girls named Rue in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,241, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 188. For comparison, it was #5,096 in 2015 and #3,911 in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Rue, making it the 8,119th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,509 places from #5,610 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 17 boys named Rue in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,240, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 20, in 2022. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rue in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 10 babies. In all, 1,884 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 990 babies named Rue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,066 US girls were named Rue; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 188. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rue ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #382 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Roy (411,331 babies since 1880) and Ruhi (1,333 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ruie, Ruah and Ruhee are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ruie (470), Ruah (198), Ruhee (112), Ruaa (17), Ruha (15).
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 Rue 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 12 | #382 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #800 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #820 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #851 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #972 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,016 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,033 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,211 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,312 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,326 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,377 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,589 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,659 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,796 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,844 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,324 | 10 | #8,119 |
| 2024 | 188 | #1,241 | 17 | #5,610 |
| 2023 | 184 | #1,254 | 12 | #7,212 |
| 2022 | 183 | #1,294 | 20 | #4,986 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,747 | 13 | #6,603 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,493 | 6 | #11,748 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,336 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,541 | 6 | #11,938 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,096 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,534 | 6 | #11,844 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,118 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,071 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,448 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,309 | — | — |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,511 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,349 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,856 | 8 | #3,210 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,112 | 5 | #4,381 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,712 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,526 | 8 | #3,104 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,263 | 8 | #3,061 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,313 | 7 | #3,312 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,911 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,569 | — | — |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,273 |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,130 | 6 | #3,496 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,921 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,432 | 10 | #2,452 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,924 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,760 | 9 | #2,699 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,522 | 10 | #2,610 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,264 | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,616 | 6 | #3,939 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,130 | 6 | #4,081 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,213 | 10 | #2,876 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,243 | 7 | #3,650 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,370 | 7 | #3,798 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,319 | 7 | #3,760 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,666 | 13 | #2,462 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,553 | 7 | #3,764 |
| 1919 | — | — | 12 | #2,489 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,735 | 13 | #2,373 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,848 | 16 | #1,973 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,042 | 10 | #2,702 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,865 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,387 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,776 | 5 | #1,240 |
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).