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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ruel

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#6,377

up +1,281 places

2025 births

14

up +3 births

All-time births

1,921

1% of them in 2025

More common than

93%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1915
49 births
Best rank
#697
in 1893
First recorded
1882
#1,069 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1947
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
128 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191549#890Peak
  2. 192447#1,042
  3. 192546#1,019
  4. 192742#1,107
  5. 192138#1,176

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #697 in 1893 · peak births 49 in 1915

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

1,921 boys · 5 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ruel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.