Tracing the Ruffins Family Name

There is no single Ruffins family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Family name meaning

The same name, two spellings: Ruffins and Ruffin. Read literally, Ruffins points to “Red-haired”.

Ruffins adds a patronymic ending to Ruffin, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Ruffing and Rufin. In the 2010 US Census, 389 Americans gave Ruffins as their last name (rank 53,204).

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