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Rube Boys

The U.S. popularity history of Rube: every year it appeared on the national list since 1880, with 612 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

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Total recorded births
612
Peak year
1917 #1429
Years on the list
67
10-year trend
-16.7%

In the 1910s ·

Popularity history

1880–1973

YearBirthsRank
19379#2645
19387#3121
19406#3407
19425#3961
19438#2932
19446#3381
19455#3702
19487#3271
19496#3636
19525#4175
19556#3816
19565#4379
19576#3918
19666#3875
19735#5739

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1917

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

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