Rubin

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ruben in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 23 more, Рубен in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Rubén in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rubin is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname64K records spelled Rubin3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Romanian

  Also written Rubín

• Portuguese surname12K records spelled Rubin6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Italy

  Also written Rubín, Rubiñ, Rübin, Rubìn, R̶u̶b̶i̶n̶

• a separate surname12K records spelled Rubin5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Bolivia

  Also written Rubín, Ru-Bin, Rūbīn

• Russian surname10K records spelled Rubin21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, United States

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

  Also written Рубин, Рубін, Rubín, Roubine, Ру́бин

• Hebrew surname3.9K records spelled Rubin4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written רובינ, Rubín, Rubiñ

• Albanian surname2.1K records spelled Rubin3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Albania

  Also written Rübíñ, Rübîn

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rubin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Rubino

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In German, Jewish name 'ruby'; also from RUB

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In English, Hebrew; 'red'

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• In German, from 'ruby'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, im 2 0 .Jh. aus dem EngHschen entlehnter männl. Vom., engHsche Neben­ form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 144 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vera Rubinb. 1928USAmerican astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
• Robert Rubinb. 1938USAmerican banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary
• Jerry Rubinb. 1938USAmerican activist (1938–1994)
• Bruce Joel Rubinb. 1943USAmerican screenwriter
• Alan Rubinb. 1943USJazz trumpeter, Blues Brothers member (1943–2011)
• Gayle Rubinb. 1949USAmerican cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist
• Jennifer Rubinb. 1962USAmerican actress (born 1962)
• Rick Rubinb. 1963USAmerican music producer (born 1963)
• Daphne Rubin-Vegab. 1969PAPanamanian actress
• Jason Rubinb. 1970USAmerican video game director, comic book creator and Internet company founder

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 611 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rubin?

We estimate roughly 316 thousand people bear Rubin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Rubin have the most bearers?

Rubin is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled ruben.

How common is Rubin compared with other names?

In Argentina, Rubin is the 37th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

What does the name Rubin mean?

Recorded meaning: A male given name from Hebrew, of rather rare usage, variant of Reuben.