Cuba — unisex name

What the Data Says About Cuba

The Social Security Administration has registered 569 babies named Cuba between 1891 and 1972, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cuba currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1972. The name reached its historical peak in 1898, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Cuba is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 47 additional births since 1922.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cuba performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Cuba shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cuba in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cuba in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 569 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.