Rui

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rui: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #527 in 2007, and it stood at #727 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#527highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2006	#4157
2009	#5556
2011	#5785
2012	#4838
2020	#3899
2023	#5687
2024	#4843

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #1460 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #1257 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2007–2019
Highest recorded position: #527 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2007 (recorded 2007–2019).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rui appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 416 births with the name.

Rui 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.

Rui'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 · Boys	#1257 (1997)	#841 (2004)	#1460 (2024)	28 of 28	416 (1997–2024)	25 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#3899 (2020)	#4843 (2024)	8 of 26	29 (1999–2024)	5 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#527 (2007)	#527 (2007)	#764 (2019)	3 of 13	10 (2007–2019)	4 (2007)

Rui 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 Rui in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	31	3 of 10	10
2000s	133	10 of 10	13
2010s	161	10 of 10	16
2020sbusiest	91	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 18 births a year.

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

Rui 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #527 in Republic of Ireland in 2007.

Rui'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1460	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1139	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1224	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1812	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1367	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1342	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1302	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1401	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#841	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1190	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1188	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #527, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

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 2007, and 27 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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Rukaya · #2843, 13y

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.

Aarya · #526, 23y
Romilly · #528, 29y
Yazan · #520, 24y
Benji · #535, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Brook · #527, 29y
Enrico · #527, 29y
Mazin · #527, 27y
Obed · #527, 20y

Rui was ranked #527 in Republic of Ireland · Boys 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.

Rui 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 Rui without appearing here.

Rui moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1756 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1511 and #3687.
Kristine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4838 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Rui

Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4157 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #2326.
Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #841 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1617 and #615.
Arlo Compare
In 2004 they stood at #841 and #875 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1617 and #766.
Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1401 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1756 and #926.

Moved the same way as Rui

Brooke Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Rui went from #1257 to #2228 and Brooke from #1174 to #4608.

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 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #527 in Republic of Ireland in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rui

Rui at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rui across 3 official records

Rui by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Rui across 3 official records

Rui by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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