Ruby (given name)
Ruby is a predominantly feminine given name taken from the name of the gemstone ruby. The name of the gemstone comes from the Latin rubinus, meaning red. The ruby is the birthstone for the month of July.
The name first came into wide use for girls in the late Victorian era, along with other jewel names.
Popularity
Ruby is a currently well-used name for girls in English-speaking countries. The name was also once rarely given to boys in the United States and was ranked in the top 1,000 names given to boys born in that country between 1900 and 1940. In its masculine form, it is occasionally used as a nickname for the name Reuben.Authors Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz noted in their 2007 book Baby Name Bible that Ruby is a "vibrant" name with a "sassy and sultry" image, while Laura Wattenberg wrote in her 2005 book The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name For Your Baby that Ruby has the image of a woman "kicking up her heels" at a music hall.
Notable people
Notable people with the name include:- Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, English actress
- Ruby Barker, British actress
- Ruby Bhatia, Indian-Canadian actress, and television host
- Ruby Bradley, United States Army nurse
- Ruby Bridges, American activist, first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in the 20th century
- Ruby Cutter Savage, American soprano
- Ruby Dandridge, American actress
- Ruby Dee, American actress
- Ruby Dhalla, Canadian politician
- Ruby Evans, Welsh artistic gymnast
- Ruby Franke, former American youtuber and convicted child abuser
- Ruby Nash Garnett, lead singer of American group Ruby & the Romantics
- Ruby Gilbert, American politician
- Ruby I. Gilbert, American business woman
- Ruby Goldstein, American welterweight boxer and referee
- Ruby Berkley Goodwin, American writer and actress
- Ruby Hunter, Australian singer-songwriter
- Ruby Ellen Huston, New Zealand artist
- Ruby Keeler, American actress, singer and dancer
- Ruby Laffoon, 43rd Governor of Kentucky
- Ruby Lilley, American skateboarder
- Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress
- Ruby McKim, English quilt designer, entrepreneur, and writer
- Ruby Modine, American actress and singer
- Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer
- Ruby Myers, also known as Sulochana, Indian silent film actress
- Ruby O'Donnell, English actress
- Ruby Payne-Scott, pioneering Australian astronomer
- Ruby Pouchet, Dutch beauty pageant titleholder from Bonaire
- Ruby Rose, Australian MTV VJ
- Ruby Riott, ring name of American professional wrestler Dori Prange
- Ruby, real name Rania Hussein Muhammad Tawfiq, Egyptian singer, actress and model
- Ruby Schleicher, Australian rules footballer
- Ruby Svarc, Australian rules footballer
- Ruby Turner, British Jamaican singer, songwriter, and actress
- Ruby Walsh, Irish jockey
- Ruby Wax, British-American comedian
- Ruby Winters, American soul singer
- Ruby K. Worner, American chemist
- Ruby Yang, Chinese-American filmmaker
Fictional characters
- Ruby, Red's younger sister in Angry Birds who first appears in Angry Birds Friends in 2024
- Ruby, a rabbit villager in the video game series Animal Crossing
- Ruby, a character from the second season of Battle for Dream Island, an animated web series
- Ruby, a Cocotama who is the spirit of the ring in the anime Cocotama, Our Little Gods
- Ruby, a fictional character in the 2022 film Disenchanted
- Ruby, a young mutant in The Hills Have Eyes and The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film)
- Ruby, a Japanese hare in the Jewelpet anime series
- Ruby, a Oviraptor character of The Land Before Time series
- Ruby, a fictional character in the television series My Life with the Walter Boys
- Ruby, a wolf-blooded red riding hooded fighter in Mobile Legends
- Ruby, a character in the Pokémon Adventures manga series
- Ruby (Steven Universe), a character in the animated television series Steven Universe
- Ruby, a demon character in the television series Supernatural
- Ruby Allen, a character in the British soap opera EastEnders, played by Louisa Lytton
- Ruby Baptiste, a character in the HBO television series Lovecraft Country
- Ruby Bennett, "Rue", the main character in HBO series Euphoria
- Ruby Bunny, an anthropomorphic rabbit and the main character in the Nick Jr. animated preschool series Max & Ruby
- Ruby Crescent, a character of the 666 Satan manga
- Ruby Dobbs, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Ruby Fox-Miligan, a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Ruby Gillis, a character of Anne of Green Gables
- Ruby Gillman, the title character in the animated DreamWorks Animation film Ruby Gillman
- Ruby Gloom, the title character of the Canadian animated television series of the same name
- Ruby Heart, original character in Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- Ruby Hoshino, the female protagonist in manga and anime series Oshi no Ko
- Ruby Kurosawa, a character from the media-mix project Love Live! Sunshine!!
- Ruby Lucas, a character from the ABC show Once Upon a Time
- Ruby Moon, a character in Cardcaptor Sakura manga and anime
- Ruby Rose, the main protagonist of the anime webseries RWBY
- Ruby Roundhouse, a main character in the films Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level
- Ruby Snarkis, a character in the French Canadian series, Flying Rhino Junior High
- Ruby Spark, a character from the British medical drama Casualty
- Ruby Summers, the daughter of Scott Summers and Emma Frost in Marvel Comics
- Ruby Sunday, a character in British science fiction series ''Doctor Who''