MEANING & HISTORY
What does Rufina mean?
Rufina is documented as the feminine form of Rufinus. The Galician academy traces that Roman family through Rufus and the Latin adjective associated with red colouring, historically of hair or complexion.
This supplies a precise formation beyond the bare Cebuano entry. The old descriptive byname does not establish the appearance of every present-day person named Rufina.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a female given name
Wiktionary: Rufina (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
3
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Rufina in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Rufina
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Rufino♂From Rufinus, related to red-haired Rufus
- Lucina·Roman childbirth name; grove and light explanations
- Regina♀Queen
- Reina♀Queen in Spanish; pure in a separate Yiddish account
- Rina♀Short form of names ending in rina
- Robina♀Feminine form of Robin
- Rufa♀Red or ruddy, in the Rufus name family
- Aina♀Finnish Aino variant; also independent Anna and Japanese forms
What rhymes with Rufina?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Recorded combinations with Rufina
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Rufina (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — rufina (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial entry, not user submissions: Feminine of Rufinus.
- Real Academia Galega — Rufino (opens in a new tab)
Rufinus/Rufina from Rufus, reddish colouring; exact Spanish Rufina listed.