Given name & surname

Ruha

“trash, heap, thicket”

Ruha is a surname. It is used in Finnish.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Ruha possibly goes back to a word meaning “trash, heap, thicket.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ruha through the years

Babies since 1880
15
0 boys · 15 girls
Most popular year
2025
9 babies
2025
9
#10,755 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02462025Highest share 20255.6
Ruha in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2024–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,755 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

People named Ruha

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Sibling ideas

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