Rue
#1,318 for girls in 2025, 169 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 83.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 188 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,565since 1896
Rue over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,318 | 169 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #1,240 | 188 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #1,253 | 184 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #1,292 | 183 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 | #2,332 | 10 |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #2,575 | 11 | — | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | #2,542 | 9 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 | #2,864 | 8 |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 | #3,697 | 6 |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #2,778 | 12 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | #2,347 | 13 |
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| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | — | #2,385 | 12 | |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 | #2,260 | 13 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 | #1,900 | 16 |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | #2,543 | 10 |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 | #3,082 | 7 |
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| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 | — | |
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| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
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| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 | — | |
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| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 | — | |
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| 1896 | #1,583 | 5 | #1,101 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rue! It came in at #1,583, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1896–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rue
- 78 spots since 2024 (#1,240 → #1,318)
- 1,150 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #1,318)
- 3,663 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #1,318)
- Debuted 1896
- Peaked 2024 at #1,240 (188 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,618 girls born in 2024 were named Rue (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,510 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 58.3% of all girls named Rue (912) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,583 (1896) | #1,583 |
| 1900s | 13 | #1,561 (1900) | #1,577 |
| 1910s | 41 | #1,981 (1912) | #3,214 |
| 1920s | 75 | #2,778 (1925) | #3,594 |
| 1930s | 65 | #2,317 (1937) | #3,346 |
| 1940s | 64 | #3,030 (1941) | #3,958 |
| 1950s | 72 | #3,325 (1954) | #4,507 |
| 1960s | 13 | #4,865 (1962) | #5,716 |
| 1970s | 11 | #8,324 (1971) | #8,443 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 294 | #3,479 (2017) | #5,426 |
| 2020s | 912 | #1,240 (2024) | #1,552 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rue in 1896
Top girls' names in 1896
Top boys' names in 1896
More about 1896
girls
237,918 girls got a published name in 1896; 1 in 47,584 of them was named Rue, which outranked 13.3% of the 1,825 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 242 names at #1,583; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
119,565 boys got a published name in 1896; 1 in 23,913 of them was named Rue, which outranked 13.0% of the 1,266 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 165 names at #1,101; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.