Meaning not yet researched.
Ruger: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 111 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,148 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,148 in 2017; #1,551 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ruger in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,551 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,148.
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Ruger: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 111 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,148 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 167 (2016).
In 2025, 111 US boys were named Ruger, making it the 1,551st most common boys’ name of the year, up 475 places from #2,026 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 76 boys named Ruger in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,148, reached in 2017. The most boys given the name in a single year was 167, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,296 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ruger in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 7 babies. In all, 2,368 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,309 babies named Ruger.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,281 US boys were named Ruger; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,388 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ruger ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #429 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Roger (443,830 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.
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 Ruger in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 6 | #429 | #376 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #497 | #262 |
| Kansas | 6 | #578 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #702 | #557 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #763 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,449 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,044 | #2,341 |
| California | 5 | #2,742 | #1,841 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 111 | #1,551 |
| 2024 | — | — | 76 | #2,026 |
| 2023 | — | — | 104 | #1,660 |
| 2022 | — | — | 111 | #1,596 |
| 2021 | — | — | 134 | #1,377 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,795 | 130 | #1,366 |
| 2019 | — | — | 147 | #1,275 |
| 2018 | — | — | 135 | #1,340 |
| 2017 | — | — | 166 | #1,148 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,878 | 167 | #1,153 |
| 2015 | — | — | 138 | #1,296 |
| 2014 | — | — | 155 | #1,196 |
| 2013 | — | — | 119 | #1,411 |
| 2012 | — | — | 118 | #1,416 |
| 2011 | — | — | 94 | #1,632 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,116 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,441 |
| 2008 | — | — | 50 | #2,536 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,593 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,591 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,946 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,832 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,951 |
| 2002 | — | — | 23 | #3,756 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,847 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #5,001 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,262 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,205 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,902 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,887 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,433 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,604 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,460 |
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).