Rutha
The girl's name Rutha has been in the national records since 1884, with 2,799 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1975. About 890 Ruthas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rutha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,799
- Estimated living today
- 890
- Median age today
- 77
- Peak year
- 1925
- Best rank
- 791st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Ruthas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,799 babies given the name since 1884, about 890 are alive — 32 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 780 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Rutha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rutha is most concentrated in Mississippi (23.4×), Georgia (7.5×), Florida (6.0×), South Carolina (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1925
The most popular girls’ names the year Rutha peaked:
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Rutha against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.