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Rubena

Girls' name

Ruby

Rubena has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Rubena, 1970

1 in 721,000

Rubena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rubena: meaning, origin, and history

Ruby

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rubena means

Rubena means “ruby”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rubena is used in Esperanto.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ru.ˈbe.na/ for Rubena.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 182 girls were recorded with the name Rubena between 1911 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,161 in 1911.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rubena?

Rubena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,606,302 births
Among girls only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1970
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rubena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1970 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rubena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rubenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rubena was born before 1922 — so the typical Rubena is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Rubena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (13)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,161
1911

Spellings of Rubena

Rubena is not the most common spelling — Rena is, with 46.2% against Rubena's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rubena is used

Across 1910–2025, Rubena was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 471,198 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rubena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rubena around the world

Where Rubena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #665
    in 1961

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rubena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,161
1911
Peak year
1922
13 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
182
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rubena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RubaniRubyannRubeeRubinaKawenaCalenaYalenaGalenaAveenaMylenaSolenaRelenaKylenaAlaenaZalenaNevenaRubabHalenaElaenaRubyroseZelenaAnalenaHellenaKyleena

Sibling names for Rubena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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