Ruthann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ruthann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 46K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
9,335 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ruth-Ann in GY Guyana.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruthann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,335 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Ruthann | 304 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Ruthann | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Ruthann | 48 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Ruthann | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Ruthann | 76 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Ruthann | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | #738 | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Ruthann | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 22 | 1 in 34K | 22 | Ruth-Ann | 2 |
9,335 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ruthann Knudsonb. 1941USAmerican archaeologist (1941-2018)
- Ruthann Aronb. 1942USConvicted criminal/former politician/former real estate developer
- Ruthann Friedmanb. 1944USAmerican musician
- Ruthann DeBonab. 1976USAmerican wrestling host
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.3K | #2,576 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 258 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 247 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1946 | 244 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1944 | 230 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1941 | 224 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1945 | 221 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 206 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1948 | 200 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 196 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1939 | 194 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1938 | 169 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ruthann a male or female name?
- Ruthann is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ruthann have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Ruthann, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruthann.
- How common is the name Ruthann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,335 people named Ruthann in 2020, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruthann compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Ruthann is the 738th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruthannThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ruthann” — the 738th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.