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Ruffini is specific to the north with strains also in the Anconetano and Maceratese, in the Teramano and Lazio, Ruffino has a Piedmontese stump, perhaps not secondary, a Roman strain, a Neapolitan and one, very important in Sicily, Ruffinoni, very rare, is specific to the area Between Milan, Lecco and Bergamo, Rufini is typical of central Italy, Umbria, Viterbese, Romano in particular and Dell'aquilano, Rufino is specific to the Neapolitan, all derive from the Latin cognomen Rufus and, through this, the medieval name Italian Rufinus his hypochoristic, of which we have an example in Pavia in a brief investiture controversy of the year 1131: "... Ego Rufinus manicella sacri palacii notarius auctenticum huius startshowing huius startshowing in the Sopralineo vidi et legi et sic in EO continebatyour ut in hoc groecum exemplum preter litteram plus minusve et preter id quod erat lesum et corrossum quod legi not poterat et hoc exemplum Scripsi... ". About the antiquity of the surnames Ruffini and Ruffinoni, in an act of disposal of land, dating back to the year 1136, we read: "... Quinta iacet in Bremedasca et est pertice. VII.; AB One part land Rufini Gumberti, in Secunda Petri Vecia, on Tercia via. Sexta iacet in La Turrisella et est pertice. V.; AB a part terra Petri Vecia, in Duabus via Bremedasca et alia via.... " and later: "... Fourth tenth Iacet in Pascario de Solora et est pertice octo; Ab una terra Sancti Michaelis, ab Alia Uberti Rufinoni, a Tercia Petri Flaccacicer... ".
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