Rufta
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 13 babies a year in England and Wales.
Rufta by the numbers
In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Rufta. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Rufta
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Rufta. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Rutarue plant; also a Lithuanian form of Ruth5 in the US (2017)
- Rudrathe roarer; hindu storm god66 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rukiarising or ascending3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rifkato bind or join; form of rebecca13 in the US (2017)
- Rettabright counsel; diminutive of Henrietta or similar11 in the US (2017)
- Reatalasso or lariat rope10 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Rufta
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