Ruairi
70
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 80
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ruairi
Ruairi is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (70) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Ruairi reached its peak in 2021, when 80 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #496 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 70 represents 88% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,104 boys have been officially registered with the name Ruairi in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 682 boys were registered with the name, starting from 35 in 2014 and ending at 70 in 2024.