Lubin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Lupinus/Lubinus, related to lupus, 'wolf'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lubin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 220as Ruben(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 280as Ruben
- MXMexico≈1 in 370as Ruben
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 Lubin 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #259 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 509 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Ruben, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est., as Ruben
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ruben in AR Argentina, US United States, MX Mexico and 4 more.
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)From Latin Lupinus/Lubinus, related to lupus, 'wolf'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lubin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #88 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 370 | 2.3K | Ruben | 247 |
| AR Argentina | #43 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 216 | 1.5K | Ruben | 166 |
| ES Spain | #47 | 131,134as Ruben | 1 in 381 | 131K | Ruben | 239 |
| PH Philippines | #101 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 891 | listed | Ruben | 119 |
| US United States | #379 | 126,201as Ruben | 1 in 2.6K | 126K | Ruben | 509 |
| PY Paraguay | #23 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 277 | — | Ruben | 72 |
| PT Portugal | #71 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | listed | Ruben | 151 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Lubin 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 French, from the Germanic personal name Leobin, a pet form of any of the compound names formed with leub. Hup, Hob ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ as the first element. St. Leobin was a bishop of Chartres in the 6th century (whence the name’s popularity in the Middle Ages), and several places were named Saint-Lubin after him, as for example in Eure, Eure-et-Loir, and Loir-et-Cher.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, metronymic from the Yiddish personal name Lube, from eastern Slavic ‘love’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, habitational name for someone from Lyubin and Lyubny, now in Belarus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, Dérivé du germanique liub « cher, aimé ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Origine germanique, signifie « amour ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)- Siegmund Lubinb. 1851USAmerican businessman and motion picture pioneer (1851–1923)
- Arthur Lubinb. 1898USAmerican film director (1898-1995)
- Frank Lubinb. 1910USAmerican-Lithuanian basketball player (1910–1999)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lubin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Lupinus/Lubinus, related to lupus, 'wolf'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Which countries have the most people named Lubin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 354 thousand people named Ruben in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina, Spain, Philippines and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lubin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 131,134 people named Ruben, about 1 in 381 residents.
- How common is Lubin compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Lubin is the 88th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lubin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lubinThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lubin” — the 88th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.