Ruby was the 191st most common given name among people in the file born in 1886 — 584 carried it. Across all birth years, 201,183 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Rubys was 1912.
Living to 92
Ruby lived to 92. Among the 589,698 people in the file born in 1886, half lived past 85 and one in four reached 89; the longest-lived made it to 119. Only deaths reported to Social Security between 1936 and 2011 appear in the file, so members of this cohort who died young are not counted — these are the lifespans of its survivors.
Died the same month
158,687 other deaths in the file were recorded in January 1979 without a recorded day, among them John Manthey, Wilma Speaks and Norval Tate.