Ruby

What Ruby means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ruby yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ruby?

US: Rising: up from #83 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #17 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1911, when 3,372 girls got the name (#22 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 452 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 245 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 156 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (13.35 per 1,000 girls), WY (11.1 per 1,000 girls), RI (6.53 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ruby is #64 in the US and #38 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Ruby were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Rubi225 US · 5 E&W
• Ruba16 US · 4 E&W
• Reba9 US · 3 E&W
• Rubee11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ruby

Girls

• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Camila#19Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #19 vs #1,051 in 2025
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

For a brother

• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Cohen#225Editor’s note Up from #336 in 2015 to #225 in 2025 in the US
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ruby’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.