The Rubino surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,917 people carried this name — #5,068 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 42,700 people counted. That is up 3% from 6,687 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Rubino surname
From rubino (“ruby”), a nickname for a dear or precious person.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rubino» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 2,435 people named Rubino live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
239 people named Rubino live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 233 people named Rubino.
Most of them — 127 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
27 people named Rubino is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Rubino in American newspapers,
1902.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,487 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Rubino,
with a public archive behind them.
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Joseph Rubino 1799–1864 · historian -
Gennaro Rubino 1859–1918 · criminal -
Edoardo Rubino 1871–1954 · politician -
Edoardo Rubino 1871–1954 · politician
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Antonio Rubino 1578–1643 · missionary
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Bonaventura Rubino 1600–1668 · composer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rubino.
- Ruben 2,884 · U.S. census
- Rubens 778 · U.S. census
- Rubert 612 · U.S. census
- Rubi 2,070 · U.S. census
- Rubin 23,165 · U.S. census
- Rubini 206 · U.S. census
- Rubinstein 3,183 · U.S. census
- Rubio 50,788 · U.S. census
- Rubira 113 · U.S. census
- Rubis 408 · U.S. census
- Rubrecht 205 · U.S. census
- Ruby 9,091 · U.S. census
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