At a Glance
- Meaning
- Madder — a red-dye-yielding plant, ultimately from ruber, 'red'
- Origin
- Latin
- Gender
- Girl
- Pronunciation
- ROO-bee-uh
Rubia is a Latin girl's name meaning “madder — a red-dye-yielding plant, ultimately from ruber, 'red'”. It appears in our list of 175+ Color-Inspired Baby Names From Azure to Indigo.
Meaning & Origin of Rubia
Meaning: Madder — a red-dye-yielding plant, ultimately from ruber, 'red'.
Origin: Latin.
A common claim: in Spanish, often understood to simply mean 'blonde' Actually: that colloquial Spanish sense is unrelated to the name's Latin root, which refers to the red madder plant (from ruber, 'red').
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Rubia
ROO-bee-uhIPA /ˈruːbiə/
Popularity of Rubia
Rubia doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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