How Many People Are Named Rubye?
people named Rubye are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 290,633 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,967 babies named Rubye in Social Security records from 1886 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
256 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of RUBY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Rubye in English. Counting Rubye and these spellings together, about 156,935 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Rubye in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Rubye alive today is about 74 years old, and 88% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 71 and 85 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Rubye first appears in the records in 1886 and was given most often in 1919, to 256 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1886 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Rubye has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #366, in 1912.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #366 (1912) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #497 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Rubye alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Rubye were born in Georgia than in any other state: about 189 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rubye was given 6.5 times as often in Tennessee, 6.4 times in Georgia and 5.6 times in Mississippi.
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