Annual registration volume (number of births) for Ruth across 146 years of SSA data.
Historical Timeline (1880 - 2025)
18801920196020002025
Recent Decade (2015 - 2025)
5-Year Trend (2020β2025)
+34.2%
10-Year Trend (2015β2025)
+60.5%
201520202025
π Popularity Milestones
Busiest Year on Record26,102births in 1920
Years in Top 10082 yrs
Years in Top 500146 yrs
Longest Streak146 yrs
Decade-by-Decade Registration Volumes
1880s: 5,298
1890s: 32,867
1900s: 51,010
1910s: 173,675
1920s: 218,520
1930s: 109,204
1940s: 85,666
1950s: 62,538
1960s: 34,189
1970s: 13,431
1980s: 11,204
1990s: 8,730
2000s: 9,187
2010s: 10,857
2020s: 9,746
π Sound & Spelling Structure
Phonetic SyllablesRuth
Letter Count4 letters
Spelling ComplexityEasy
Length Percentile
Longer than 1.4% of names
Linguistic Profile: It is an isogram, meaning no two letters are repeated. Longer than 1.4% of SSA names. Starts with R, a letter used by only 4.7% of SSA names.
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