Meaning not yet researched.
Ruthann: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #460 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #460 in 1943; #5,679 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ruthann in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,679 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #460.
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Ruthann: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #460 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 258 (1943).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Ruthann, making it the 5,679th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,316 places from #4,363 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 33 girls named Ruthann in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #460, reached in 1943. That year also had the most girls given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #5,630 in 2015 and #702 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ruthann in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 7,098 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 2,190 babies named Ruthann.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 266 US girls were named Ruthann; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ruthanne (2,685 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ruthene, Ruthine and Ruthan 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: Ruthene (60), Ruthine (24), Ruthan (21).
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 Ruthann in the open dataset we use.
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 | 22 | #5,679 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,848 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,600 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,213 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,965 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,121 | — | — |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,006 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,625 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,181 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,216 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,350 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,202 | — | — |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,376 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,852 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,784 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,345 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,021 | — | — |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,980 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,407 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,638 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,914 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,988 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1968 | 69 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1965 | 67 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1964 | 99 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1963 | 113 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1962 | 117 | #996 | — | — |
| 1961 | 151 | #868 | — | — |
| 1960 | 127 | #949 | — | — |
| 1959 | 121 | #961 | — | — |
| 1958 | 110 | #992 | — | — |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1956 | 77 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1955 | 92 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1954 | 90 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1953 | 77 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1952 | 98 | #945 | — | — |
| 1951 | 132 | #773 | — | — |
| 1950 | 150 | #702 | — | — |
| 1949 | 164 | #649 | — | — |
| 1948 | 200 | #589 | — | — |
| 1947 | 206 | #595 | — | — |
| 1946 | 244 | #499 | — | — |
| 1945 | 221 | #490 | — | — |
| 1944 | 230 | #471 | — | — |
| 1943 | 258 | #460 | — | — |
| 1942 | 247 | #470 | — | — |
| 1941 | 224 | #467 | — | — |
| 1940 | 196 | #494 | — | — |
| 1939 | 194 | #482 | — | — |
| 1938 | 169 | #518 | — | — |
| 1937 | 145 | #564 | — | — |
| 1936 | 65 | #845 | — | — |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,048 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,852 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,101 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,177 | — | — |
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).