Don't run too far; you will have to return the same distance.

Midrash Ecclesiastes R. 11:9

Rubinov clan

Rubinov

Family name origin

The most wide spread version of the origin of this name, on which majority of the researchers agree, is the following. This name comes the Hebrew TaNaChic name Reuben. In Yiddish this name was pronounced as Ruvim or Ruven. It is from this Yiddish name as many genealogists think that the name Rubin came.
The second version is that this is a name that appeared as a result of the distortion of the family name Rabin (coming from Rabi).
The third version of the name origin looks to us less...

Last name spellings

  • Rubinov
  • רובינוב

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