Rut

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rut: Recorded since 1946, with a gap of 10 years, it reached #268 in 1961, and it stood at #3,318 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#268highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Rut's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#4838
2014	#4684
2015	#4103
2016	#3609
2017	#3229
2018	#3178
2019	#3151
2020	#3117
2021	#4634
2022	#3970
2024	#3318

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 Norway in 36 of the 76 years from 1946 to 2021.

In 2021: #493 among girls in Norway, #4634 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1946–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1946
First recorded at #401 among girls in Norway in 1946 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1946–2021
Highest recorded position: #268 among girls in Norway, in 1961 (recorded 1946–2021).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rut appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1946, and has registered 225 births with the name.

Rut 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.

Rut'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
Norway · Girls	#401 (1946)	#268 (1961)	#493 (2021)	36 of 76	225 (1946–2021)	13 (1961)
England and Wales · Girls	#4838 (2012)	#3117 (2020)	#3318 (2024)	11 of 13	63 (2012–2024)	7 (2017)

Rut by decade in Norway · 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 Rut in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	26	4 of 10	7
1950s	44	7 of 10	6
1960sbusiest	59	8 of 10	7
1970s	48	7 of 10	7
1980s	11	2 of 10	6
1990s	20	4 of 10	5
2000s	4	1 of 10	4
2010s	9	2 of 10	5
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Rut 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 2 regions, from 1946 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #268 in Norway in 1961.

Rut'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	#3318	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#493	4	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#537	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#598	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#617	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#519	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#598	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#619	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#680	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#599	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#539	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#653	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#384	10	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#624	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#563	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#408	9	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#541	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#337	11	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#517	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#411	7	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#519	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#296	12	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#438	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#385	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#268	13	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#488	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#396	6	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#366	7	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#294	10	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#442	4	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#313	9	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#430	4	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#406	4	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#353	6	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#297	9	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#342	7	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#401	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1946 and 2024, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #268, first reached in 1961.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in Norway in 1961.

Its record falls into 16 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 66 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.

9decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 9 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
16separate stretches the record falls into10 or more separate stretches →
10 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#3,318position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
66 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 41 years or more →
13births registered in its largest year, 1961Under 25 births →

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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Russell · #37, 70y
Ruta · #280, 37y
Ruth · #35, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Agathe · #270, 45y
Lianne · #263, 40y
Saima · #273, 47y
Rosalind · #274, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Gabriele · #268, 43y
Khalid · #268, 70y
Irma · #269, 49y
Lennart · #267, 61y

Rut was ranked #268 in Norway · Girls in 1961. 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.

Rut 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 Rut without appearing here.

Rut moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3970 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.
Hunter Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3970 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Rut

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1286.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2705.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1939.
Josefine Compare
In 1989 they stood at #599 and #642 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #680 and #250.

Moved the opposite way to Rut

Frida Compare
Between 1947 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #342 to #493 while Frida went from #350 to #6.
Mia Compare
Between 1947 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #342 to #493 while Mia went from #357 to #17.
Mina Compare
Between 1947 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #342 to #493 while Mina went from #392 to #77.
Sara Compare
Between 1947 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #342 to #493 while Sara went from #385 to #32.

Moved the same way as Rut

Bente Compare
Between 1946 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #401 to #598 and Bente from #47 to #568.
Janne Compare
Between 1946 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #401 to #598 and Janne from #187 to #473.
Judith Compare
Between 1946 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #401 to #598 and Judith from #119 to #542.
Sissel Compare
Between 1946 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Rut went from #401 to #598 and Sissel from #26 to #599.

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 2 regions, from 1946 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #268 in Norway in 1961. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rut

Rut at a glance

What stands out in Rut's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rut across 2 official records

Rut by decade in Norway · Girls

Rut appears in

Popularity data

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Rut at a glance

What stands out in Rut's record

Rut across 2 official records

Rut by decade in Norway · Girls

Rut appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Rut

Rut and the names beside it

Rut moved ahead of

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