Rubern Surname

4,427,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 20 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Papua New Guinea
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Rubern Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Rubern Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Papua New Guinea141:582,40870,330
Nigeria51:35,428,552388,973
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Rubern (102) may also be a first name.

Rubern Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Rubern Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Rubern is borne by more people in Papua New Guinea than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Rubern? popularity and diffusion

Rubern is the 4,427,875th most widespread surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name occurs mostly in Oceania, where 70 percent of Rubern live; 70 percent live in Oceania Islands and 70 percent live in Papuan Oceania. Rubern is also the 935,178th most commonly used first name at a global level It is held by 102 people.

Rubern is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 14 people, or 1 in 582,408. In Papua New Guinea it is most frequent in: Southern Highlands, where 43 percent live, Hela, where 36 percent live and Central, where 7 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea Rubern occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 25 percent live and Tanzania, where 5 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Raubern922/
Ruberin921/
Robern8319/
Ruborn831/
Roberin772/
Riberen771/
Rauborn770/
Ruthvern711/
Riborn671/
Ribarin628/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Rubern
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