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Ruberta vs Rubi

American parents have registered 9,065 Rubis since 1880, against 82 Rubertas. Rubi is still ahead, with 225 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ruberta against Rubi, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ruberta Rubi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 72 years in which either name was published, Rubi for 59 years and Ruberta for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ruberta Rubi
Total US births 829,065
Most in one year 8716
Babies in 2025 under 5225
Estimated living today 69,000
Median age today 9219
Peak year 19242005
Best rank 3,665th girls431st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,076th
First recorded 19101957
Girls / boys 82 / 09,051 / 14

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rubertas alive today are over 92; half the Rubis are over 19. That is 73 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ruberta and Rubi.