Rune
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #1,778 for boys in 2025, 90 births
Given to boys 82.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 90 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 713since 2001
Rune 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 | #4,661 | 29 | #1,778 | 90 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #1,921 | 82 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #2,277 | 62 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,217 | 65 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #3,297 | 35 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | — | #4,105 | 25 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | — | #5,251 | 17 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,554 | 16 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,698 | 10 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,072 | 17 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,278 | 15 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,426 | 18 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rune! It came in at #7,536, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007–2008, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rune
- 143 spots since 2024 (#1,921 → #1,778)
- 1,496 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #1,778)
- 2,629 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #1,778)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2025 at #1,778 (90 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,979 boys born in 2025 were named Rune (0.01%)
- 51.6% of all boys named Rune (368) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 129 | #4,129 (2004) | #5,998 |
| 2010s | 216 | #3,106 (2018) | #4,701 |
| 2020s | 368 | #1,778 (2025) | #2,461 |
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.
Rune in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 55,423 of them was named Rune, which outranked 73.1% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #4,546Westlyn30
- #4,546Zoelle30
- #4,546Zuriel30
- #4,661Rune29
- #4,661Adalaya29
- #4,661Adriella29
- #4,661Ahava29
- #4,758Adamaris28
- #4,758Adelita28
- #4,758Adelle28
Tied with 96 names at #4,661; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 18,979 of them was named Rune, which outranked 87.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,771Malcom91
- #1,771Riggins91
- #1,771Suleiman91
- #1,778Rune90
- #1,778Braydon90
- #1,778Edrick90
- #1,778Elon90
- #1,793Asael89
- #1,793Auden89
- #1,793Don89
Tied with 14 names at #1,778; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.