Nubia
Nubia was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,061 among girls’ names; 2,406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Nubia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nubia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nubia?
#5,061 among girls’ names, 2025
Nubia fell from #3,581 in 2015 to #5,061 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 16.2 per million.
83 babies in 1993, the peak
Nubia peaked in 1993, when 83 girls were given it, #1,769 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,061 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,270 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,779 | 38.6 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,398 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,657 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,575 | 41.4 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,076 | 31.6 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,037 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,955 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,452 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,581 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,740 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,512 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,267 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,820 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,090 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,183 | 28.8 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,304 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,916 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,210 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,495 | 37.9 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,636 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,691 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,629 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,727 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,359 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,770 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,637 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,685 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,468 | 29.7 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,767 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,281 | 32.5 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,769 | 45.9 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,366 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,375 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,200 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,964 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,624 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,596 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,822 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,686 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,217 | 26.7 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,463 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,044 | 30.1 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,954 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,521 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,972 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,416 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,819 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,775 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,600 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,817 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,103 | 7.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,913 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,214 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nubia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nubia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nubia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nubia, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,406 Americans ever recorded as Nubia. The median Nubia alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 6,253 people named Nubia (6,240 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 208 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 723 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 842 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 589 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nubia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,705 | 2.2× |
Where Nubia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nubia is most over-represented in California: since 1969 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nubia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,462 babies since 1880, Nubia is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 26 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Nubia
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 Nubia and names like it
- Compare Nubia and NubeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNubia peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nubia since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Nubia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nubia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.