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How popular is the name Ruby?
Births per year, rank history and how many Rubies are alive today.
Ruby (female) is currently the 41st most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,020 babies given the name in 2024. This spelling of the name peaked in 2007, when it was the most popular girls' name outright, given to 4,983 babies. It has declined since 2007; the 2024 figure is roughly 20% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 62,000 babies have been named Ruby in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Ruby is one spelling of a name also recorded as Rubie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Ruby you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Rubies born in England and Wales are between 14 and 46, and there are at least 92,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 25% chance that at least one of them will be called Ruby.
How many babies are named Ruby each year?
Includes all spellings: Ruby, Rubie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Ruby spelling rank?
Where does the Rubie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ruby most popular?
Ruby peaked in 2007, when 5,093 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Ruby?
At least 92,000 people named Ruby in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ruby?
Most living Rubies are between 14 and 46; the most common age is about 18.
Is Ruby becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2007 peak.