Meaning not yet researched.
Russ: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #427 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #427 in 1959; #5,008 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Russ in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,008 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #427.
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Russ: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #427 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 350 (1959).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Russ, making it the 5,008th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,405 places from #6,413 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 14 boys named Russ in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #427, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 350. For comparison, it was #9,410 in 2015 and #954 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Russ in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 6 babies. In all, 6,131 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,217 babies named Russ.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 150 US boys were named Russ; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ross (82,293 babies since 1880), Rose (502,704 babies since 1880) and Rush (3,450 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ruiz 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: Ruiz (5).
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 Russ in the open dataset we use.
Russ is listed as a nickname for Russell.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #5,008 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,413 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,856 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,819 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,293 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,415 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,541 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,636 |
| 2017 | — | — | 7 | #10,558 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,507 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #9,410 |
| 2014 | — | — | 5 | #13,677 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #11,877 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,954 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,924 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,541 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #14,093 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #7,001 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,627 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,742 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #9,416 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,194 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,404 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,287 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,590 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,736 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,903 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,156 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,233 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,490 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,625 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,315 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,389 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,760 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,978 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,985 |
| 1987 | — | — | 34 | #1,891 |
| 1986 | — | — | 45 | #1,507 |
| 1985 | — | — | 34 | #1,785 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,834 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,422 |
| 1982 | — | — | 45 | #1,437 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,223 |
| 1980 | — | — | 60 | #1,184 |
| 1979 | — | — | 50 | #1,315 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,322 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,287 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,260 |
| 1975 | — | — | 52 | #1,177 |
| 1974 | — | — | 56 | #1,107 |
| 1973 | — | — | 66 | #1,001 |
| 1972 | — | — | 73 | #949 |
| 1971 | — | — | 103 | #795 |
| 1970 | — | — | 127 | #731 |
| 1969 | — | — | 114 | #734 |
| 1968 | — | — | 124 | #678 |
| 1967 | — | — | 123 | #673 |
| 1966 | — | — | 135 | #639 |
| 1965 | — | — | 180 | #571 |
| 1964 | — | — | 264 | #486 |
| 1963 | — | — | 291 | #461 |
| 1962 | — | — | 304 | #459 |
| 1961 | — | — | 341 | #431 |
| 1960 | — | — | 341 | #435 |
| 1959 | — | — | 350 | #427 |
| 1958 | — | — | 298 | #456 |
| 1957 | — | — | 221 | #517 |
| 1956 | — | — | 168 | #588 |
| 1955 | — | — | 96 | #751 |
| 1954 | — | — | 82 | #799 |
| 1953 | — | — | 57 | #956 |
| 1952 | — | — | 50 | #1,023 |
| 1951 | — | — | 40 | #1,149 |
| 1950 | — | — | 53 | #954 |
| 1949 | — | — | 64 | #863 |
| 1948 | — | — | 70 | #819 |
| 1947 | — | — | 101 | #691 |
| 1946 | — | — | 97 | #657 |
| 1945 | — | — | 73 | #716 |
| 1944 | — | — | 49 | #916 |
| 1943 | — | — | 58 | #883 |
| 1942 | — | — | 43 | #1,033 |
| 1941 | — | — | 34 | #1,147 |
| 1940 | — | — | 35 | #1,127 |
| 1939 | — | — | 25 | #1,353 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,469 |
| 1937 | — | — | 27 | #1,309 |
| 1936 | — | — | 23 | #1,412 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,374 |
| 1934 | — | — | 20 | #1,600 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,700 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,175 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,088 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,978 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,568 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,623 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,106 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,542 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,111 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,796 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,746 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,774 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,482 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,445 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,836 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,675 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,701 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,131 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,347 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,862 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,463 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,190 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,100 |
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).