Rubina
A Latin name meaning "ruby", the red gemstone. Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, around 72, and no girls have been given it in years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Rubina Pronunciation
Rubina is pronounced roo-BEE-nah (/ruˈbina/).
What Rubina means
Where Rubina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rubina begins in Latin. The root is ruber, the ordinary Latin word for red, and from it grew rubinus, the name for the deep red gem. Polish keeps that gem as rubin. Rubina stands beside it, a girl's name cut from the stone.
The meaning is short and literal: ruby. A ruby is red, hard, and cut to hold light, and the name borrows all of that without dressing it up. Where some names collect a moral sense over centuries, Rubina keeps to the mineral. It means the stone, and little more.
On an imieniny card or a school register, Rubina reads as rare in Poland, closer to Rubin the surname than to any crowd of classmates. A teacher calling the list might pause on it once. The pause is the point. Behind the name sits one plain fact of Latin: ruber, red, and the ruby it names.
How many people are named Rubina
1 in 313109 women in Poland is named Rubina. 72 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4246 among female names.
Rubina as a middle name
Rubina is a first name for 72 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2640th, between Roxanna (9) and Rudo (9).
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#2638 Roxane9
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#2639 Roxanna9
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#2640 Rubina9
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#2641 Rudo9
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#2642 Rywka9