Rubian

given name · Latin script

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

Rubian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: One of several colour-producing glycosides found in madder root.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 515K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 640K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.1M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

411 people, 2022

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 515K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

One of several colour-producing glycosides found in madder root.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rubian 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 Rubian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil4111 in 515K411Rubian49
PH Philippines≈96 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Rubian8
NL Netherlands271 in 640K27——
US United States≈26 est.≈1 in 13M—Rubian6
ES Spain≈9 est.≈1 in 5.8M10—5

411 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rubian is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Rúbian

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rúbian

30 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Rubian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—93#66,867
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—10#120,154

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Rubian mean, and where does it come from?
One of several colour-producing glycosides found in madder root. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Rubian a male or female name?
Rubian is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Rubian have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 411 people named Rubian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rubian.
Where is Rubian most common?
Rubian is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 515 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Rubian?
In Brazil, the national register counted 411 people named Rubian in 2022, about 1 in 515 thousand residents.

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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, “Rubian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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