Cuba
Cuba was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 616 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cuba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cuba?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,525, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1898, the peak
Cuba peaked in 1898, when 29 girls were given it, #597 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #8,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,275 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 8 | #3,306 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,569 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,504 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,200 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,782 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,835 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,920 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,024 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,962 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,674 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,091 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,122 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,518 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,643 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 14 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 29 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cuba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 616 Americans recorded as Cuba, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cuba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cuba, and how old are they?
An estimated 101 Americans named Cuba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 33 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Cuba (174 women and girls, 119 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 670 babies since 1880, Cuba is the most given (92% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cuba
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cuba and names like it
- Compare Cuba and CubieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sCuba peaked in 1898.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cuba since 1910.
- The top names of 1898The year the most babies were named Cuba.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Cuba alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with CMost given first.