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The table below indicates the number of times the name Ruth has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ruth**
Use of the Name Ruth for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
1,969	0	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ruth has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ruth**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880			93	234
1881			84	277
1882			80	323
1883			74	387
1884			74	442
1885			70	507
1886			66	581
1887			62	627
1888			59	850
1889			46	1,074
1890			46	1,195
1891			19	1,858
1892	632	12	5	3,291
1893	607	12	3	3,658
1894	535	15	6	3,372
1895	968	7	6	3,551
1896	667	12	5	3,905
1897	435	20	5	3,877
1898	568	15	5	4,249
1899	771	9	5	3,911
1900	645	16	5	4,765
1901	528	15	5	3,974
1902	533	17	5	4,383
1903	651	13	5	4,521
1904	608	15	5	4,900
1905	522	20	5	5,065
1906	560	18	5	5,137
1907	694	15	5	5,567
1908	608	19	4	6,172
1909	670	17	4	6,499
1910	468	35	5	7,200
1911	594	27	5	7,976
1912	648	43	5	11,235
1913	850	33	5	12,568
1914	792	45	5	15,808
1915	938	45	5	21,867
1916	853	55	5	23,175
1917	901	51	5	23,549
1918	987	47	5	25,552
1919	826	63	5	24,567
1920	946	54	5	26,082
1921	927	58	5	25,775
1922	786	73	5	23,622
1923	859	63	6	23,642
1924	805	71	6	23,594
1925	760	76	6	22,248
1926	754	73	6	20,179
1927	670	92	6	19,411
1928	796	68	6	17,829
1929	776	69	8	16,018
1930	773	69	10	14,917
1931	808	61	11	13,127
1932	708	77	11	12,249
1933	865	52	13	11,132
1934	767	65	13	10,559
1935	875	52	15	9,978
1936	949	43	15	9,216
1937	888	49	15	9,596
1938	975	43	21	9,300
1939	884	50	22	9,063
1940			24	8,884
1941			28	8,851
1942			33	9,328
1943			33	9,343
1944			32	8,668
1945			33	8,037
1946			38	8,456
1947			44	8,483
1948			45	7,896
1949			47	7,649
1950			49	7,123
1951			53	7,074
1952			58	6,933
1953			62	6,576
1954			66	6,561
1955			69	6,191
1956			78	6,060
1957			84	5,664
1958			90	5,246
1959			97	5,052
1960			97	4,946
1961			96	4,887
1962			104	4,296
1963			113	3,863
1964			114	3,637
1965			118	3,237
1966			128	2,845
1967			145	2,421
1968			149	2,152
1969			168	1,900
1970			178	1,820
1971			191	1,620
1972			201	1,390
1973			202	1,271
1974			195	1,306
1975			199	1,227
1976			205	1,199
1977			212	1,182
1978			213	1,204
1979			216	1,200
1980			207	1,255
1981			209	1,261
1982			222	1,177
1983			224	1,117
1984			223	1,158
1985			233	1,114
1986			243	1,074
1987			251	1,016
1988			257	988
1989			277	970
1990			306	899
1991			287	980
1992			323	841
1993			316	841
1994			311	871
1995			323	840
1996			351	789
1997			336	846
1998			347	835
1999			350	854
2000			344	890
2001			331	926
2002			338	888
2003			354	868
2004			352	883
Totals:		1,969		810,045

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ruth as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ruth appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 48 times during the last 125 years.

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