Feminine dossier · first seen 1884

Rutha

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Rutha
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1925

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1884Peak 19252024

Peak year

1925

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,799

Rutha has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1925, when 87 girls were named Rutha.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,799 Americans have been named Rutha and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1884.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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