Ruby-Mae

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ruby-Mae: Recorded since 1996, it reached #504 in 2012, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#504highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2003	#3099
2004	#2112
2005	#1295
2006	#1031
2007	#866
2008	#790
2009	#738
2010	#840
2011	#534
2012	#504
2013	#554
2014	#668
2015	#674
2016	#757
2017	#1219
2018	#1272
2019	#955
2020	#771
2021	#1039
2022	#1948
2023	#1705
2024	#1541

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 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #1541 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 #3795 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: #504 among girls in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1541 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ruby-Mae appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 875 births with the name.

Ruby-Mae across 2 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.

Ruby-Mae'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	#3795 (1996)	#504 (2012)	#1541 (2024)	26 of 29	875 (1996–2024)	86 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#834 (2020)	#834 (2020)	3 of 12	9 (2009–2020)	3 (2009)

Ruby-Mae 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 Ruby-Mae in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	15	4 of 10	4
2000s	187	7 of 10	27
2010sbusiest	542	10 of 10	54
2020s	131	5 of 10	26

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 54 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 36, from 42 to 78.

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

Ruby-Mae 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: #504 in England and Wales in 2012.

Ruby-Mae'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	#1541	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1039	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#955	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1219	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#757	52	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#674	60	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#668	59	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#554	74	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#504	86	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#534	78	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#738	49	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#790	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#866	36	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1031	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #504, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 86 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 28 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.

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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.

Osama · #506, 28y
Ameerah · #507, 29y
Artem · #499, 21y
Donnie · #509, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Izabel · #504, 28y
Luiza · #504, 27y
Darian · #503, 29y
Imani · #505, 30y

Ruby-Mae was ranked #504 in England and Wales · Girls in 2012. 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.

Ruby-Mae 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 Ruby-Mae without appearing here.

Ruby-Mae moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3099 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1031 and #4157.
Evan Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3225 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1031 and #3548.
Freddie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2738 and #2411 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1031 and #3548.
Gail Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3225 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2112 and #4598.

Moved ahead of Ruby-Mae

Eabha Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1039 and #1069 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1948 and #1180.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #757 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1219 and #499.
Frida Compare
In 2016 they stood at #757 and #955 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1219 and #740.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #955 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #771 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Ruby-Mae

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ruby-Mae

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ruby-Mae went from #3795 to #1541 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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: #504 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ruby-Mae

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What the data shows

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Ruby-Mae across 2 official records

Ruby-Mae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ruby-Mae at a glance

Ruby-Mae across 2 official records

Ruby-Mae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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