Rui vs Ruie
American parents have registered 972 Ruis since 1880, against 470 Ruies. Rui is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Rui Ruie
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 102 years in which either name was published, Rui for 54 years and Ruie for 48 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Rui | Ruie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 972 | 470 |
| Most in one year | 71 | 20 |
| Babies in 2025 | 59 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 940 | 40 |
| Median age today | 13 | 87 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 2,288th boys | 1,773rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,641st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1967 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 85 / 887 | 470 / 0 |
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 Ruies alive today are over 87; half the Ruis are over 13. That is 74 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Rui Massachusetts (8.2×), New Jersey (5.9×), California (4.6×)
- Ruie Kentucky (56.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rui and Ruie.