Rue

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Rue: Recorded every year since 2013, its highest recorded position is #333, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
13years from first to last
#333highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#5742
2014	#2659
2015	#2945
2016	#2120
2017	#2925
2018	#3518
2019	#1854
2020	#1773
2021	#1454
2022	#1215
2023	#608
2024	#558

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 2013 to 2024.

In 2024: #333 among girls in Scotland, #558 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2013–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2013
First recorded at #5742 among girls in England and Wales in 2013 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Rue appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2013, and has registered 258 births with the name.

Rue 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.

Rue'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	#5742 (2013)	#558 (2024)	#558 (2024)	12 of 12	258 (2013–2024)	70 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#3478 (2016)	#1175 (2023)	#1235 (2024)	9 of 9	91 (2016–2024)	24 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#856 (2023)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	3 of 3	10 (2023–2025)	4 (2025)

Rue 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 2013 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #333 in Scotland in 2024.

Rue'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	#558	70	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1235	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#608	62	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1175	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1215	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#333	10	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 2013 and 2025, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #333, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 70 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, and 11 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.

Rudra · #520, 20y
Rudy · #181, 30y
Rueben · #339, 29y
Rufus · #236, 29y

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.

Novah · #333, 11y
Joris · #334, 18y
Markas · #334, 17y
Caila · #330, 9y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Novah · #333, 11y
Adaline · #337, 11y
Luisne · #337, 9y
Kylian · #339, 12y

Rue was ranked #333 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Rue 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 Rue without appearing here.

Rue moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1175 and #4991.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2120 and #5785.

Moved the opposite way to Rue

Abigail Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 while Abigail went from #46 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 while Aimee went from #189 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 while Alex went from #882 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 while Alexandra went from #102 to #215.

Moved the same way as Rue

Ada Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 and Ada from #280 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 and Alma from #684 to #234.
Aria Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 and Aria from #214 to #35.
Astrid Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rue went from #5742 to #558 and Astrid from #626 to #263.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2013 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #333 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Rue across 3 official records

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