Meaning not yet researched.
Ruthanne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #878 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #878 in 1946; #6,506 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ruthanne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,506 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #878.
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Ruthanne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #878 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 90 (1946).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Ruthanne, making it the 6,506th most common girls’ name of the year, up 693 places from #7,199 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 16 girls named Ruthanne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #878, reached in 1946. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #7,213 in 2015 and #1,282 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ruthanne in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 8 babies. In all, 2,685 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 634 babies named Ruthanne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 156 US girls were named Ruthanne; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ruthann (7,098 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 Ruthanne 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 | 18 | #6,506 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,199 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,196 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,175 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,432 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,594 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,220 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,051 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,214 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,175 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,213 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,975 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,396 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,262 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,328 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,299 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,380 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,669 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,089 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,769 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,326 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,336 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,907 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,425 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,426 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,755 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,192 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,243 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,923 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,629 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,880 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,485 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,620 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,874 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,028 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,120 | — | — |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,205 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1963 | 35 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1946 | 90 | #878 | — | — |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1944 | 76 | #880 | — | — |
| 1943 | 59 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1942 | 76 | #900 | — | — |
| 1941 | 55 | #991 | — | — |
| 1940 | 55 | #970 | — | — |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,147 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,020 | — | — |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,803 | — | — |
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).