Cuba
About 616 American babies have been named Cuba since 1891, most of them around 1898. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 110 Cubas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cuba boys named Cuba
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 616
- Estimated living today
- 110
- Median age today
- 77
- Peak year
- 1898
- Best rank
- 597th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 569 / 47
How old the living Cubas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 616 babies given the name since 1891, about 110 are alive — 17 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Cubas
- Cuba Gooding Jr. (born 1968)American actor
People named Cuba with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cuba is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cuba is most concentrated in Kentucky (56.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1898
The most popular girls’ names the year Cuba peaked:
Cuba elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Cuba | 138 | 1,903rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.