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Ruger

The boy's name Ruger has been in the national records since 1993, with 2,368 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,547th. About 2,300 Rugers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ruger boys named Ruger

By the numbers

Total US births
2,368
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
9
Peak year
2016
Best rank
1,149th
Rank in 2025
1,547th
First recorded
1993
Girls / boys
12 / 2,356

How old the living Rugers are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,368 babies given the name since 1993, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ruger is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ruger is most concentrated in Utah (14.9×), Oklahoma (10.8×), Idaho (8.0×), Missouri (4.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular boys’ names the year Ruger peaked:

All the names of 2016

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.