Ruari

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ruari: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ruari: Recorded since 1974, it reached #205 in 2005, and it stood at #290 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#205highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2021	#5581

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 22 of the 43 years from 1974 to 2016.

In 2024: #290 among boys in Scotland, #1859 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1974–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1974
First recorded at #251 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1974 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2017
Highest recorded position: #205 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 1997–2017).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1859 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Ruari appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 464 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1974.

Ruari across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ruari's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#251 (1974)	#232 (1989)	#601 (2016)	22 of 43	105 (1974–2016)	10 (2005)
England and Wales · Boys	#680 (1996)	#680 (1996)	#1859 (2024)	29 of 29	464 (1996–2024)	33 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#205 (2005)	#363 (2017)	10 of 21	43 (1997–2017)	8 (2005)

Ruari by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ruari in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	67	4 of 10	17
2000s	135	10 of 10	14
2010sbusiest	189	10 of 10	19
2020s	73	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 19 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ruari appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1974 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #205 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Ruari's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#919	32	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#931	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1539	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1483	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1506	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1545	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1160	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1048	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#680	23	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#291	5	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#315	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#205	8	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#263	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#272	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#422	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#540	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#604	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	10	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#347	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	4	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	6	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	6	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#293	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#290	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1974 and 2024, ranked in 38 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #205, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 50 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ruairidh · #56, 24y
Ruan · #200, 28y
Ruaridh · #85, 27y
Rubab · #2411, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Henryk · #206, 39y
Devin · #208, 33y
Margo · #209, 33y
Hafsa · #216, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Kirk · #206, 33y
Leann · #203, 32y
Aurimas · #208, 20y
Bartlomiej · #202, 47y

Ruari was ranked #205 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ruari and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ruari without appearing here.

Ruari moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #5119.
Brett Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1704 and #1704 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #931 and #2172.
Keith Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1673 and #1673 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1704 and #2804.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1704 and #1271 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #931 and #1627.

Moved ahead of Ruari

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1448 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #967.
Marius Compare
In 2018 they stood at #919 and #1194 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1439 and #731.
Erik Compare
In 1998 they stood at #780 and #958 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1281 and #603.
Denis Compare
In 1998 they stood at #780 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1281 and #621.

Moved the opposite way to Ruari

Aaron Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 while Aaron went from #152 to #24.
Adam Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 while Adam went from #148 to #7.
Alex Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 while Alex went from #321 to #17.
Alexander Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 while Alexander went from #127 to #49.

Moved the same way as Ruari

Adrian Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 and Adrian from #46 to #156.
Alfred Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 and Alfred from #218 to #353.
Denis Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 and Denis from #44 to #145.
Edward Compare
Between 1974 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruari went from #251 to #601 and Edward from #25 to #90.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1974 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #205 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ruari

Ruari at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ruari across 3 official records

Ruari by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ruari appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Ruari at a glance

Ruari across 3 official records

Ruari by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ruari appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Ruari

Ruari and the names beside it

Ruari moved ahead of

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