Nubia
About 2,406 American babies have been named Nubia since 1969, most of them around 1993. In 2025 it ranked 4,987th. About 2,400 Nubias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nubia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,406
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 1,763rd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,987th
- First recorded
- 1969
How old the living Nubias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,406 babies given the name since 1969, about 2,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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.
Where Nubia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nubia is most concentrated in Arizona (5.3×), California (5.2×), Texas (4.0×), Florida (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Nubia peaked:
Nubia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Nubia | 60 | 6,868th |
| England and Wales girls | Nubia | 51 | 4,063rd |
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.
Where Nubia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 529 women called Nubia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalajara | Nubia | 7 | 0.050 | 1,128 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Nubia | 26 | 0.047 | 1,607 |
| Palmas, Las | Nubia | 25 | 0.042 | 1,926 |
| Lugo | Nubia | 6 | 0.036 | 1,304 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Nubia | 36 | 0.035 | 1,701 |
| Rioja, La | Nubia | 5 | 0.030 | 1,693 |
Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
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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.