Nubia — #4208 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nubia

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,379 babies named Nubia between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nubia currently holds the #4208 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 83 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nubia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 590 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Nubia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 681 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Nubia in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nubia 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 2,379 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.