Rutha
Rutha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 753rd, in 1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192587 births
- Best rank
- #753in 1932
- Since 1884
- 2,799people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,799 girls have been named Rutha in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 87 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 87 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rutha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | |
| 1890s | 61 | |
| 1900s | 100 | |
| 1910s | 265 | |
| 1920s | 686 | |
| 1930s | 637 | |
| 1940s | 531 | |
| 1950s | 359 | |
| 1960s | 128 | |
| 1970s | 15 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Rutha was the 792nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Rutha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ernestinepeak 1928
- Melvapeak 1938
- Arlettapeak 1930
- Loispeak 1927
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Williapeak 1928
- Retapeak 1946
- Margiepeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.