Rufine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʀyfin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rufine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 22K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 70K
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 Rufine 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)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
4,118 named Rufina, 2020
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rufina in ES Spain, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rufine 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 | — | 4,118as Rufina | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Rufina | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,819as Rufina | 1 in 13K | 4.3K | Rufina | 4 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 2,286as Rufina | 1 in 13K | 2.3K | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | Rufine | 4 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Rufine | 10 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,156as Rufina | 1 in 15K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #231 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rufine | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 322as Rufina | 1 in 11K | 322 | — | — |
4,118 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the wgnd-cd-names 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).
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 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rufine?
- A machine transcription gives /ʀyfin/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Rufine a male or female name?
- Rufine 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.
- In which country does Rufine have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Rufina, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Rufine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,118 people named Rufina in 2020, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Rufine compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Rufine is the 231st most common given name of 363 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rufine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rufineThe 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, “Rufine” — the 231st most common given name in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.