Rubin

At the 2020 census, 22,248 Americans bore the surname Rubin — 1,574th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,248
Rank: 1,574th
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rubin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.2%
Black, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Rubin

Vera Rubin (1928–2016)American astronomer and physicist
Rick Rubin (born 1963)American music producer
Gayle Rubin (born 1949)American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist
Robert Rubin (born 1938)American banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary
Chanda Rubin (born 1976)American tennis player
Jerry Rubin (1938–1994)American activist
Ella Rubin (born 2001)American actress
Jennifer Rubin (born 1962)American actress

People named Rubin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rubin

Also a first name

Rubin has been given to 7,070 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1923. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.