Rufino

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Rufino has been given to 1,650 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1927, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Rufino, 2024

1 in 371,000

Rufino over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rufino: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rufino means

Rufino is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rufino is used in Cebuano and Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Rufino is pronounced /ɾuˈpino/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,650 boys were recorded with the name Rufino between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,319 in 1927.

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.

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How common is Rufino?

Rufino had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 371,000; 9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 191,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 257,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rufino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rufino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rufinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rufino was born before 1975 — so the typical Rufino is around 50 today.

Median birth year: 1975; About 50 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 12.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 21.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,192; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 12.2% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Rufino 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1927 (32)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,319; 1927

Spellings of Rufino

Rufino is not the most common spelling — Rubin is, with 65.1% against Rufino's 15.2%.

Rubin65.1%7,054
Rufino15.2%1,650
Regino8.0%865
Reino6.6%711
Ruffin5.2%560

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 Rufino is used

Across 1910–2025, Rufino was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 68,580 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 33,333
2California1 in 100,000
3New Mexico1 in 100,000
4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Rufino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rufino around the world

Where Rufino 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.

France
1927–1981
#2,615
in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Rufino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,319; 1927
Peak year: 1927; 32 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 1,650
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rufino

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

Gavino Sabino Marino Gabino Regino Paulino Ruffus Savino Ruffin Delfino Justino Avelino Albino Alvino Fortino Martino Catarino Maximino Tino Antonino Nino Juventino Faustino Lino

Sibling names for Rufino

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

For a sister

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva Edward George Paul

For a brother

Frances Jewel Napoleon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud Hosea

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