Ruth Girl Name

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The name Ruth is of Hebrew origin, and means friend. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ruth 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 Ruth**
Use of the Name Ruth for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
810,045	99,997	24,181	8,619	4,455	1,751	883

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ruth 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 Ruth**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	93	234
1881	84	277
1882	80	323
1883	74	387
1884	74	442
1885	70	507
1886	66	581
1887	62	627
1888	59	850
1889	46	1,074
1890	46	1,195
1891	19	1,858
1892	5	3,291	632	12
1893	3	3,658	607	12
1894	6	3,372	535	15
1895	6	3,551	968	7
1896	5	3,905	667	12
1897	5	3,877	435	20
1898	5	4,249	568	15
1899	5	3,911	771	9
1900	5	4,765	645	16
1901	5	3,974	528	15
1902	5	4,383	533	17
1903	5	4,521	651	13
1904	5	4,900	608	15
1905	5	5,065	522	20
1906	5	5,137	560	18
1907	5	5,567	694	15
1908	4	6,172	608	19
1909	4	6,499	670	17
1910	5	7,200	468	35
1911	5	7,976	594	27
1912	5	11,235	648	43
1913	5	12,568	850	33
1914	5	15,808	792	45
1915	5	21,867	938	45
1916	5	23,175	853	55
1917	5	23,549	901	51
1918	5	25,552	987	47
1919	5	24,567	826	63
1920	5	26,082	946	54
1921	5	25,775	927	58
1922	5	23,622	786	73
1923	6	23,642	859	63
1924	6	23,594	805	71
1925	6	22,248	760	76
1926	6	20,179	754	73
1927	6	19,411	670	92
1928	6	17,829	796	68
1929	8	16,018	776	69
1930	10	14,917	773	69
1931	11	13,127	808	61
1932	11	12,249	708	77
1933	13	11,132	865	52
1934	13	10,559	767	65
1935	15	9,978	875	52
1936	15	9,216	949	43
1937	15	9,596	888	49
1938	21	9,300	975	43
1939	22	9,063	884	50
1940	24	8,884
1941	28	8,851
1942	33	9,328
1943	33	9,343
1944	32	8,668
1945	33	8,037
1946	38	8,456
1947	44	8,483
1948	45	7,896
1949	47	7,649
1950	49	7,123
1951	53	7,074
1952	58	6,933
1953	62	6,576
1954	66	6,561
1955	69	6,191
1956	78	6,060
1957	84	5,664
1958	90	5,246
1959	97	5,052
1960	97	4,946
1961	96	4,887
1962	104	4,296
1963	113	3,863
1964	114	3,637
1965	118	3,237
1966	128	2,845
1967	145	2,421
1968	149	2,152
1969	168	1,900
1970	178	1,820
1971	191	1,620
1972	201	1,390
1973	202	1,271
1974	195	1,306
1975	199	1,227
1976	205	1,199
1977	212	1,182
1978	213	1,204
1979	216	1,200
1980	207	1,255
1981	209	1,261
1982	222	1,177
1983	224	1,117
1984	223	1,158
1985	233	1,114
1986	243	1,074
1987	251	1,016
1988	257	988
1989	277	970
1990	306	899
1991	287	980
1992	323	841
1993	316	841
1994	311	871
1995	323	840
1996	351	789
1997	336	846
1998	347	835
1999	350	854
2000	344	890
2001	331	926
2002	338	888
2003	354	868
2004	352	883
Totals:		810,045		1,969

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ruth 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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