Rufina
Rufina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192832 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1892
- 1,035people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,035 girls have been named Rufina in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 32 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 24%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rufina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 33 | |
| 1910s | 117 | |
| 1920s | 244 | |
| 1930s | 119 | |
| 1940s | 119 | |
| 1950s | 72 | |
| 1960s | 54 | |
| 1970s | 46 | |
| 1980s | 60 | |
| 1990s | 66 | |
| 2000s | 50 | |
| 2010s | 26 | |
| 2020s | 24 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Rufina was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Rufina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ignaciapeak 1926
- Vicentapeak 1924
- Carmelapeak 1923
- Aleasepeak 1925
- Clementinapeak 1925
- Christeenpeak 1928
- Marcellapeak 1922
- Romanapeak 1928
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.