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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Lithuanian : nickname for an unkempt person, from a derivative of rubti ‘to become rough’.
  • Greek (also Roubis) : descriptive nickname from modern Greek roubi ‘ruddy’, ‘ruby-colored’, from Venetian rubin.
  • Greek : alternatively it may be from rombos (classical Greek rhombos) ‘knot’, ‘fist’, or Peloponnesian dialect roumbi ‘rag’.

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