Ruby
For 2025 the count puts Ruby at #64 nationwide, holding steady. It crested back in 1924, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
Ruby’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ruby, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ruby since 1880
Ruby peaked in 1924 at #26; #64 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ruby is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Ruby runs strongest in Vermont at 1.33% in 2025, then Wyoming and Rhode Island.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ruby
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Clara
#63 in 2025 · Latin
Lillian
#57 in 2025
Vivian
#72 in 2025 · Latin
Arthur
#87 in 2025 · Celtic
Anna
#107 in 2025 · Hebrew
Esther
#119 in 2025 · Persian
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with R · all names
About Ruby
Where does Ruby rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Ruby at #64 nationwide, holding steady. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Ruby mean?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Ruby, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Is there a sibling name for Ruby?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Rose, Clara and Lillian, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Ruby’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
Make the kitThe book is in the works
A printed picture book where Ruby earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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