Ruta

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ruta: Recorded since 1969, it reached #280 in 1990, and it stood at #5,493 in 2020.

2registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#280highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2020

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2010	#5707
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#4739
2014	#4003
2015	#4736
2016	#5785
2018	#5666
2020	#5493

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 girls in Norway in 28 of the 45 years from 1969 to 2013.

In 2013: #589 among girls in Norway, #4739 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2020 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #580 among girls in Norway in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1969–2013
Highest recorded position: #280 among girls in Norway, in 1990 (recorded 1969–2013).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #5493 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020.
England and Wales · Girls

Ruta appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1969, and has registered 247 births with the name.

Ruta 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.

Ruta'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	#580 (1969)	#280 (1990)	#589 (2013)	28 of 45	247 (1969–2013)	19 (1990)
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#3998 (2001)	#5493 (2020)	10 of 20	36 (2001–2020)	5 (2011)

Ruta 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 Ruta in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	51	8 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	110	10 of 10	11
1990s	78	8 of 10	10
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ruta 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 1969 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #280 in Norway in 1990.

Ruta'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
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#589	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#581	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#633	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#457	8	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#428	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#429	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#362	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#367	12	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#280	19	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#403	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#310	16	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#297	16	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#455	9	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#284	17	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#372	12	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#553	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#555	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#455	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#427	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#453	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#581	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#573	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#312	13	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#470	7	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#605	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#542	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#614	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#580	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 1969 and 2020, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #280, first reached in 1990.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in Norway in 1990.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 32 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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Ruth · #35, 81y
Ruwayda · #1384, 24y

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.

Kato · #282, 35y
Dejan · #284, 37y
Aram · #275, 36y
Katherina · #288, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Clyde · #279, 33y
Muna · #279, 53y
Aveen · #282, 22y
Carine · #278, 31y

Ruta was ranked #280 in Norway · Girls in 1990. 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.

Ruta 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 Ruta without appearing here.

Ruta moved ahead of

Wendy Compare
In 1984 they stood at #553 and #511 in Norway · Girls; by 1985 that had become #284 and #685.
Margaret Compare
In 1984 they stood at #555 and #428 in Norway · Girls; by 1985 that had become #284 and #617.
Deborah Compare
In 1974 they stood at #605 and #443 in Norway · Girls; by 1975 that had become #312 and #587.
Aud Compare
In 1986 they stood at #455 and #244 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #297 and #553.

Moved ahead of Ruta

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #2705.
Matilda Compare
In 2012 they stood at #581 and #626 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #589 and #191.
Abigail Compare
In 2012 they stood at #581 and #594 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #589 and #311.
Vilde Compare
In 1985 they stood at #284 and #300 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #455 and #198.

Moved the opposite way to Ruta

Josefine Compare
Between 1975 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Ruta went from #312 to #589 while Josefine went from #606 to #60.
Olivia Compare
Between 1975 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Ruta went from #312 to #589 while Olivia went from #617 to #15.
Iben Compare
Between 1988 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Ruta went from #310 to #589 while Iben went from #668 to #73.

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 2 regions, from 1969 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #280 in Norway in 1990. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ruta

Ruta at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ruta across 2 official records

Ruta by decade in Norway · Girls

Ruta appears in

Popularity data

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Ruta at a glance

Ruta across 2 official records

Ruta by decade in Norway · Girls

Ruta appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Ruta

Ruta and the names beside it

Ruta moved ahead of

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