Ruthann
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Meaning
an English compound of Ruth (Hebrew, friend or companion) and Ann (Hebrew Hannah, grace)
How popular is Ruthann around the world?
In the United States, 153 babies were named Ruthann between 2020 and 2025.
Ruthann is on the official records of the United States.
United States
1 in 140,000
In the United States, 153 babies were named Ruthann between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ruthann peaked in the 1940s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
last on record 2010
Ruthann is not on the 2024 record for Canada, where names under 5 in a year are excluded at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
The Ruthann deep dive
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