Ruthie
About 22,656 American babies have been named Ruthie since 1880, most of them around 1927. In 2025 it ranked 778th. About 12,000 Ruthies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ruthie boys named Ruthie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 22,656
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 326th
- Rank in 2025
- 778th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 22,624 / 32
How old the living Ruthies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 22,656 babies given the name since 1880, about 12,000 are alive — 53 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 6,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.
Notable Ruthies
- Ruthie Bolton (born 1967)American basketball player
- Ruthie Tompson (1910–2021)American animator
- Ruthie Matthes (born 1965)American cyclist
People named Ruthie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ruthie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ruthie is most concentrated in Mississippi (11.3×), Arkansas (9.0×), Alabama (4.6×), Louisiana (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular girls’ names the year Ruthie peaked:
Ruthie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Ruthie | 31 | 3,533rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Ruthie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.