Ruby Girl Name

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The name Ruby is of English origin, and means ruby. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ruby has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ruby**
Use of the Name Ruby for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
307,706	50,255	24,745	13,414	7,948	3,766	2,074

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ruby has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ruby**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	149	92	890	6
1881	133	119
1882	132	136
1883	127	163
1884	109	244
1885	106	272
1886	106	301
1887	105	309	673	9
1888	94	446	602	12
1889	78	522
1890	81	540
1891	80	555	587	11
1892	74	695	849	8
1893	71	770	759	9
1894	67	874	591	13
1895	66	954	474	19
1896	66	994	495	18
1897	57	1,025	673	11
1898	58	1,191	567	15
1899	52	1,103	653	11
1900	51	1,542	515	22
1901	50	1,224	586	13
1902	47	1,457	611	14
1903	42	1,539	484	20
1904	41	1,701	478	21
1905	38	1,884	632	15
1906	36	1,962	430	27
1907	34	2,112	492	23
1908	33	2,225
1909	27	2,514	746	15
1910	27	2,887	615	23
1911	22	3,359	573	29
1912	23	4,440	566	51
1913	23	4,902	634	50
1914	24	5,610	816	43
1915	24	7,225	801	58
1916	23	7,676	778	63
1917	26	7,670	900	51
1918	27	8,124	729	78
1919	23	8,343	893	56
1920	27	8,325	758	76
1921	26	8,330	781	74
1922	26	7,988	951	55
1923	25	8,237	882	60
1924	26	8,409	834	67
1925	30	7,838	824	66
1926	31	7,454	891	57
1927	30	7,257	724	81
1928	34	6,687	933	53
1929	36	6,154	815	64
1930	36	5,984	828	62
1931	39	5,317	792	63
1932	38	5,458	884	53
1933	43	4,942	845	54
1934	39	4,979	867	53
1935	41	4,764	827	57
1936	51	4,221	881	49
1937	52	4,292	847	53
1938	61	3,929	906	49
1939	67	3,720
1940	66	3,623	947	46
1941	69	3,570
1942	77	3,523
1943	82	3,451
1944	87	3,195
1945	95	2,903
1946	105	3,043
1947	111	3,077
1948	114	2,874
1949	123	2,578
1950	130	2,429
1951	140	2,342
1952	145	2,375
1953	149	2,343
1954	162	2,139
1955	172	2,010
1956	179	1,995
1957	197	1,781
1958	202	1,633
1959	215	1,498
1960	230	1,388
1961	245	1,270
1962	262	1,152
1963	236	1,382
1964	270	1,110
1965	275	988
1966	311	807
1967	319	747
1968	350	639
1969	342	683
1970	357	696
1971	345	730
1972	350	634
1973	345	634
1974	358	603
1975	346	628
1976	350	614
1977	362	601
1978	346	628
1979	352	659
1980	357	660
1981	345	675
1982	371	622
1983	377	590
1984	382	592
1985	384	592
1986	403	555
1987	370	629
1988	387	619
1989	333	759
1990	291	946
1991	278	998
1992	273	1,036
1993	266	1,029
1994	271	1,029
1995	260	1,051
1996	295	981
1997	282	1,035
1998	258	1,196
1999	262	1,203
2000	260	1,257
2001	233	1,355
2002	207	1,570
2003	191	1,692
2004	158	2,074
Totals:		307,706		2,006

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ruby as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name.

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