Rubie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rubie: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #382 in 2007, and it stood at #1,406 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#382highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#3824
1998	#3142
1999	#2189
2000	#1389
2001	#1870
2002	#1658
2003	#1026
2004	#1535
2005	#465
2006	#408
2007	#382
2008	#425
2009	#478
2010	#455
2011	#444
2012	#596
2013	#466
2014	#613
2015	#845
2016	#897
2017	#1144
2018	#1035
2019	#1063
2020	#1013
2021	#1039
2022	#1621
2023	#1575
2024	#1406

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #391 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1575 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1914 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #382 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1406 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rubie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,291 births with the name.

Rubie 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.

Rubie'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#382 (2007)	#1406 (2024)	29 of 29	1,291 (1996–2024)	110 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#624 (2007)	#536 (2014)	#883 (2021)	7 of 15	27 (2007–2021)	7 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#383 (2012)	#383 (2012)	#391 (2023)	3 of 12	10 (2012–2023)	4 (2012)

Rubie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Rubie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	22	4 of 10	6
2000s	548	10 of 10	55
2010sbusiest	595	10 of 10	60
2020s	126	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 60 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 65, from 14 to 79.

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

Rubie 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #382 in England and Wales in 2007.

Rubie'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	female	#1406	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1575	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1039	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#897	41	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#845	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#613	66	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#466	90	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#596	71	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#444	96	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#455	91	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#478	85	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#425	100	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#382	110	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#408	104	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#465	79	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1026	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #382, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 110 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 16 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.

Ruben-James · #2921, 10y
Rubi · #426, 26y
Rubin · #1234, 27y
Rubina · #1234, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Kaiya · #383, 28y
Mahnoor · #383, 30y
Safiya · #383, 29y
Ashlyn · #384, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kaylen · #382, 29y
Ossian · #382, 26y
Ramsay · #382, 19y
Raul · #382, 29y

Rubie was ranked #382 in England and Wales · Girls in 2007. 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.

Rubie 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 Rubie without appearing here.

Rubie moved ahead of

Lorraine Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1535 and #1312 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #465 and #2438.
Debra Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2189 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1389 and #3247.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3142 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #2189 and #3900.
Bernadette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1535 and #1209 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #465 and #1934.

Moved ahead of Rubie

Amalie Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1039 and #1102 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1621 and #940.
Meabh Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1039 and #1286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1621 and #1142.
Eabha Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1039 and #1069 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1621 and #1180.
Maddison Compare
In 2007 they stood at #624 and #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #430.

Moved the opposite way to Rubie

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Rubie went from #1914 to #1039 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Rubie went from #3142 to #1575 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Rubie went from #1914 to #1039 while Tyler went from #230 to #5581.
Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Rubie went from #1914 to #1035 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.

Moved the same way as Rubie

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rubie went from #3824 to #1406 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rubie went from #3824 to #1406 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #382 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rubie

Rubie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rubie across 3 official records

Rubie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rubie at a glance

Rubie across 3 official records

Rubie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rubie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rubie

Rubie and the names beside it

Rubie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rubie

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