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Baby name
Ruth
Girl
Origin of the name
Ruth comes from Hebrew, through Latin. In the Bible, Ruth the Moabite, faithful to her mother-in-law Naomi, is an ancestor of King David, and a book bears her name.
Classic name
836,122births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 5rank at its peak, in 1920
Where babies named Ruth are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ruth is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ruth is most common in West Virginia (1.9 times), Pennsylvania (1.7) and Vermont (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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