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I LOVE the name Ruby. It was actually my fave girl name for years and years and it gives me a sweet, old fashioned, gemstone vibe. I have a teenage niece with this name, hence why we didn’t use it ourselves.

I love it. My husband and I named our rescue pup Ruby a few years ago since we had other girls names we loved even more for our real children haha.

My first thought would be going for a Ruby Murray which is slang in the UK for a curry.

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The name Ruby started really climbing in popularity after Charlotte Church had her daughter in 2007 and named her Ruby. I really liked the name up to that point. Now other names have taken its place in my likes.

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Ruby sounds cutesy girly to me now along with Jade, Crystal, Emerald and Garnet

It's not a name I'd use. But I don't mind it at all. I do know a lot of dogs named Ruby. For me, Ruby has a sort of 1950s - 60s retro vibe. I picture Ruby as working in one of those charming old diners. She'd be a little flashy on the outside, but with a huge heart.

I’ve never liked it. I don’t like the way it feels to say it, and it’s too close to the word “rube”, as in an unsophisticated, ignorant person. Like a “stupid is to stupidly as rube is to ruby“ kind of thing.

It was very very popular here about 10-15 years ago, when it seemed like every girl was being named Ruby May, so already feels a bit dated to me. I don’t like it much.

This message was edited 9/11/2020, 8:36 AM

I like this name. I like the combo Ruby Eloise. I get a demure, stylish vibe from it. It feels young and modern to me (modern in the sense of being on trend and fashionable). I think of Ruby from Supernatural. She ended up not being the greatest character (ethics-wise), but she was a fun character in the sense that she was a clever, funny, and tough woman who could kick butt.

I really like this name, I find it cute, sadly it's very popular.

I went through a phase of really liking it, it was even one of our top names if Archie had been a girl... thankfully he wasn’t and we didn’t call him Ruby because I really dislike it now! I’ve met a lot of people with dogs called Ruby which put me off, and I find it a little childish-sounding without a longer more formal name to go with it.

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I did see a BA once for a Rubinda who went by Ruby as a nickname which I thought was quite nice!

I think it's lovely

Beautiful! One of the best IMO. I think of an artsy, fashionable, intelligent girl in her twenties.

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Nicknames could be Rubes, Roo, Rue, Bibi.

This message was edited 9/11/2020, 6:21 AM