Ruina
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ruina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative).
- UYUruguay≈1 in 260K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 305K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 433K
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
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 260K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Ruina is read(measured from records)
Ruina is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish38%
ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ruina in English.
- Italian6.9%
alternative form of rovina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruina 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 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Ruina | 9 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 305K | listed | Ruina | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 89 | 1 in 511K | 89 | Ruina | 23 |
| US United States | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Ruina | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ruina | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Ruina | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
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); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ruina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of ruiner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a falling down, collapse, ruin, destruction
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, ruin (remains of destroyed construction)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine singular of ruin
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)
- Andy RuinaUSresearcher
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 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 89 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Ruina mean, and where does it come from?
- ruin, decay, wreck (also figurative) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ruina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 252 people named Ruina in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruina.
- How common is the name Ruina?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 89 people named Ruina, about 1 in 511 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ruina?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruinaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Ruina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.