Rubie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹubi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rubie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx; WR Yorks. see Ruby (2).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 206K
- ALAlbania1 in 25K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Middx; WR Yorks. see Ruby (2).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rubie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rubie | 59 |
| US United States | 1,611 | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Rubie | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 170 | Rubie | 64 |
| GH Ghana | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Rubie | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 341K | 1 | Rubie | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 197K | 3 | Rubie | 69 |
| AL Albania | 124 | 1 in 25K | 124 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Rubie | 7 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Rubie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, madder; dyer's madder (Rubia tinctorum)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of ruby
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)
- Claude Rubieb. 1888English cricketer (1888-1939)
- Noel Rubieb. 1901Australian photographer, painter, playwright
- Peter Rubieb. 1950author (1950-)
- Brennan Rubieb. 1991USAmerican alpine skier
- Anneliese Rubieb. 1992AUAustralian athlete
- Christine Rubie-DaviesNZNew Zealand education academic
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,851 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 156 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 132 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 130 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 130 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 126 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 125 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 124 | #2,502 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 121 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 118 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 113 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 36 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Rubie a male or female name?
- Rubie 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 does the name Rubie mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx; WR Yorks. see Ruby (2). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Rubie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹubi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rubie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.6 thousand people named Rubie in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rubie.
- How common is the name Rubie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,611 people named Rubie in 2020, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rubieThe 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, “Rubie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.