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Rufina

#14,595 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Rufinus

Rufina has been given to 1,041 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #14,595 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Rufina, 2025

1 in 553,000

Rufina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rufina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Rufinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rufina means

Rufina is a feminine form of Rufinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rufina is used in Russian, Spanish and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ru.ˈfi.na/ for Rufina.

Origin, language, and formation

Rufina is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rufinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,041 girls were recorded with the name Rufina between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,389 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,057 in 2020 to #14,595 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rufina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,595
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rufina 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rufina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rufinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rufina was born before 1940 — so the typical Rufina is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
404
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Choose a decade

1920s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (244).

Is Rufina 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
−4,473
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,462
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
18.8%
Peak was 1928 (32)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,389
1928

Spellings of Rufina

Rufina is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 79.1% against Rufina's 0.45%.

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 Rufina is used

Across 1910–2025, Rufina was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 111,580 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 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. Rufina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rufina around the world

Where Rufina 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
    2019–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • France
    1928–1971
    #2,401
    in 1971
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rufina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,595
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,462
Best rank ever
#1,389
1928
Peak year
1928
32 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,041
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Rufina

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

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Sibling names for Rufina

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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