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’.