Ray vs Ruby

Ray

name
  • A ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona. 

  • A diminutive of the male given name Raymond, also used as a formal given name. 

  • A census-designated place in Coosa County, Alabama. 

  • A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, more often spelled Rae. 

  • An unincorporated community in Fremont Township, Steuben County, Indiana and Branch County, Michigan. 

  • A township in Macomb County, Michigan. 

  • A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which joins the River Cherwell. 

  • A city near Tehran, Iran. 

  • a region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert; Rhagiana 

  • A surname transferred from the nickname. 

  • A river in north Wiltshire, England, which joins the Thames. 

  • An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota. 

  • A minor city in Williams County, North Dakota. 

Ruby

name
  • A ghost town in Arizona 

  • A male given name. 

  • A female given name from English. 

  • A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s. 

  • A town in Wisconsin. 

  • A surname. 

  • A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. 

  • A town in South Carolina. 

  • A city in Alaska. 

noun
  • A curry; Short for Ruby Murray. 

How often have the words Ray and Ruby occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )