Ruby
The name is the gemstone: from Latin *ruber*, "red", by way of the stone the English call ruby. In Poland it stays rare, spelled the English way and given to only a handful of girls each year.
Ruby Pronunciation
Ruby is pronounced ROO-bih (/ˈrubɨ/).
What Ruby means
Where Ruby comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ruby began as a stone's name. In Latin the red gemstone was rubinus, a word grown from ruber, meaning red. English speakers took the gem's name and gave it to their daughters, and that is where Ruby lives as a first name.
It belonged to a small set of jewel names that English families favoured in the Victorian decades. Ruby came with its meaning already fixed, a red and costly stone. The Polish gloss keeps that plain: rubin, czerwony kamień szlachetny. There are no diminutives here, no variants to soften it. The name is the gem.
On a Polish class register, Ruby now sits near Zuzanna and Zofia, spelled the English way. What the four letters point to has not changed since Latin: the red gemstone, the ruby.
How many people are named Ruby
1 in 141785 women in Poland is named Ruby. 162 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2537 among female names.
Ruby's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1341 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Ruby as a middle name
Ruby is a first name for 162 women in Poland and a middle name for another 51, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 957th, between Nastia (51) and Tomira (51).
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#955 Emiliana51
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#956 Nastia51
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#957 Ruby51
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#958 Tomira51
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#959 Wiola51