Name meaning & stats
Ruby
Ruby means “red gemstone”. 163,494 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
“red gemstone”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
163,494 US babies were named Ruby between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Ruby (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)