Kuba
Kuba was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 119 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kuba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kuba mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Kuba is “a diminutive of the male given name Jakub”
Clipping of Jakub.
/ˈku.ba/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kuba?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,647, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2007, the peak
Kuba peaked in 2007, when 12 boys were given it, #6,895 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,647 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,277 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,305 | 3.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,355 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,467 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,497 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,832 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,704 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,895 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,221 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9 | #8,027 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,758 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,218 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,988 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,995 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,529 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kuba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kuba has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kuba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kuba, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Kuba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Kuba (11 women and girls, 177 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Kuba
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.