Rubi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rubi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname from Robin, the old East German play figure.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 39K
- USUnited States1 in 2.4Kas Ruby
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rubi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
140,132 named Ruby, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ruby in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from Robin, the old East German play figure
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rubi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 140,132as Ruby | 1 in 2.4K | 139K | Ruby | 263 |
| BD Bangladesh | #384 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Rubi | 36 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Rubi | 88 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Rubi | 17 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 53K | listed | Rubi | 19 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,799 | 1 in 6K | 2.8K | Rubi | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 632as Ruby | 1 in 16K | 632 | — | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 198 | 1 in 11K | 218 | Rubi | 4 |
140,132 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Rubi 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 English, Alternative form of ruby (“pronunciation guide for Chinese or Japanese characters”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., dndeutschende Schreib weise von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In nxg, rim, edge, border, crest of mountains
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Portuguese, ruby (a deep red corundum gemstone)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ルビ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christian Rubib. 1897CHSwiss alpine skier and politician (1897-1985)
- Christian Rubib. 1899CH(1899-1990)
- Adolf Rubib. 1905CHSwiss Nordic combined skier (1905-1988)
- Rudolf Rubib. 1918CHSwiss author (1918-2004)
- Fred Rubib. 1926CHSwiss alpine skier (1926-1997)
- Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubíb. 1947MXMexican politician
- Jorge Arturo García Rubíb. 1952MXMexican politician (died 2023)
- Gergely Rubib. 1979HUHungarian politician
- Marco Rubib. 1987ITpornographic actor
- Silvia Rubib. 1987ESSpanish pornographic actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.5K | #2,519 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.8K | #503 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 225 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 218 | #968 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 198 | #501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 146 | #2,519 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 96 | #8,809 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 47 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 35 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Rubi mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Robin, the old East German play figure Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Rubi a male or female name?
- Rubi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Rubi?
- In the etymology graph, Ruby and Rubye are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rubi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 140 thousand people named Ruby, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rubi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rubi is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 6.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rubi?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 2,799 people named Rubi in 2024, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Rubi compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rubi is the 384th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rubi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rubiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rubi” — the 384th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.