Ruger
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #13,453 · #1,547 for boys in 2025, 111 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 166 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,356since 1993
Ruger over time
Rank among boys' names. Ruger has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #1,547 | 111 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,012 | 76 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,650 | 104 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,589 | 111 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,372 | 134 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,361 | 130 |
| 2019 | — | #1,271 | 147 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,335 | 135 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,141 | 166 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #1,149 | 167 |
| 2015 | — | #1,287 | 138 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,188 | 155 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,405 | 119 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,407 | 118 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,620 | 94 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,401 | 53 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,515 | 50 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,564 | 48 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,524 | 29 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,902 | 36 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,838 | 22 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ruger! It came in at #6,816, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ruger
- 465 spots since 2024 (#2,012 → #1,547)
- 186 spots since 2020 (#1,361 → #1,547)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#1,287 → #1,547)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2017 at #1,141 (166 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,150 boys born in 2017 were named Ruger (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,388 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.3% of all boys named Ruger (1,303) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 71 | #4,668 (1997) | #5,712 |
| 2000s | 316 | #2,401 (2009) | #3,461 |
| 2010s | 1,303 | #1,141 (2017) | #1,390 |
| 2020s | 666 | #1,361 (2020) | #1,589 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ruger in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 269,425 of them was named Ruger, which outranked 23.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,142Zura7
- #12,142Zurina7
- #12,142Zurisadai7
- #13,453Ruger6
- #13,453Aadhyasri6
- #13,453Aala6
- #13,453Aaleigha6
- #15,088Aabha5
- #15,088Aafia5
- #15,088Aahlani5
Tied with 1,634 names at #13,453; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 13,278 of them was named Ruger, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,353Kaizer131
- #1,353Roan131
- #1,353Tylan131
- #1,361Ruger130
- #1,361Anas130
- #1,361Guy130
- #1,361Ismail130
- #1,368Auden129
- #1,368Axle129
- #1,368Clinton129
Tied with 6 names at #1,361; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.