Rurik
Meaning
famous ruler (legendary founder of the first Russian dynasty)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Rurik has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
101 people · the #41,030 first name in Brazil · median age 20
Among people named Rurik living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1990s as in the 2000s, more than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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