Rubio

surname · Latin script

Meaning: blond

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/rubjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rubio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 488(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1K
  • CLChile≈1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

102,390 people

#818 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

Sources
414 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 488 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

blond

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rubio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Rubio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#37102,3901 in 488102KRubio241
US United States—50,7881 in 6.5K51KRubio414
PH Philippines#346≈32,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Rubio100
CO Colombia#207≈29,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K24Rubio156
PE Peru#272≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Rubio97
CL Chile#186≈12,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K1Rubio128
SV El Salvador#170≈6,200 est.≈1 in 1K—Rubio43

102,390 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Rubió, Rúbíó, Rúbio, Rubío, Rübiö

  • Catalan surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra, Spain

    Also written Rubió, Rúbio

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Rubi-O, Rubiò, Rubío, Rubió, Rúbio

  • Swahili surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Peru

    Also written Rubió

  • Russian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Рубио, Рубіо, Rubia, Rubïo, Рубіа

  • Swedish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Denmark, Peru

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Rubió, Rúbio

55 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Pascual Ortiz Rubio, b. 1877María Rubio Tejero, b. 1934Goyo Benito, b. 1946Marco Rubio, b. 1971Paulina Rubio, b. 1971Rey Mysterio Jr, b. 1974Carlos Santos, b. 1977Alicia Rubio, b. 1986Ricky Rubio, b. 1990James Rodríguez, b. 1991

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Rubio,Dear Rubio, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Rubio,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Rubio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—102K#38
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—102K#38
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201051K#673
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202050K#663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200037K#866
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—24#92
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Rubio mean, and where does it come from?
blond Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Rubio?
A machine transcription gives /rubjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Rubio?
In the etymology graph, Rojo is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Rubio have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Rubio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rubio.
Where is Rubio most common?
Rubio is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 488 people carrying it.
How common is the name Rubio?
In Spain, the national register counted 102,390 people named Rubio, about 1 in 488 residents.
How common is Rubio compared with other names?
In Spain, Rubio is the 37th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rubio” — the 37th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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