Bubba

#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births

Peak · boys
1963 · 35 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
503
since 1945

Bubba over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Bubba has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201945peak #1,318, 1963boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#12,0085
2024
2023#10,8216
2022#9,8237
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2020#12,0225
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1991#7,2716
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1987#6,9515
1986#5,9266
1985#6,5235
1984#4,9737
1983#6,2385
1982#4,2349
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1979#3,56911
1978#4,5547
1977#3,60610
1976
1975#4,7976
1974
1973#2,60614
1972#3,3449
1971#2,68613
1970#3,07110
1969#2,30814
1968#3,1078
1967#2,61110
1966#2,32712
1965#1,77420
1964#2,40912
1963#1,31835
1962#1,38732
1961#1,63524
1960#1,65824
1959#1,55926
1958#1,95317
1957#1,88718
1956#1,82119
1955#2,21913
1954#1,76219
1953#2,39111
1952#2,25112
1951#2,6629
1950#2,32111
1949#3,6905
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First appearance
1945

The first year at least five boys were named Bubba! It came in at #2,996, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1946–1949, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Bubba
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 14 spots since 2020 (#12,022#12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1945
  • Peaked 1963 at #1,318 (35 births)
  • Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 58,031
  • Highest: 1 in 58,031 boys born in 1963 were named Bubba (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1960s
  • 38.0% of all boys named Bubba (191) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s11#2,996 (1945)#3,343
1950s155#1,559 (1959)#2,083
1960s191#1,318 (1963)#2,053
1970s80#2,606 (1973)#3,529
1980s37#4,234 (1982)#5,808
1990s6#7,271 (1991)#7,271
2000s0
2010s0
2020s23#9,823 (2022)#11,169

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Bubba in 1945

boys
#2,996
6 births · 1 in 224,309 boys

Top boys' names in 1945

  1. #1James74,464
  2. #2Robert69,947
  3. #3John66,117
  4. #4William50,218
  5. #5Richard46,046
  6. #6David37,110
  7. #7Charles32,469
  8. #8Thomas31,874
  9. #9Michael29,902
  10. #10Ronald23,665
  11. #2,996Bubba6
More about 1945

boys

1,345,855 boys got a published name in 1945; 1 in 224,309 of them was named Bubba, which outranked 20.8% of the 3,783 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bubba
  1. #2,743Wm7
  2. #2,743Zan7
  3. #2,743Zeno7
  4. #2,996Bubba6
  5. #2,996Afton6
  6. #2,996Albertus6
  7. #2,996Alexandro6
  8. #3,338Add5
  9. #3,338Addis5
  10. #3,338Adelaido5

Tied with 341 names at #2,996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1944
Risers
  1. 527Delano#1,085#558
  2. 499Dane#1,235#736
  3. 385Eusebio#1,328#943
  4. 371Erick#1,235#864
  5. 311Gerardo#1,282#971
Fallers
  1. 479Joan#870#1,349
  2. 408Kit#841#1,249
  3. 392Llewellyn#935#1,327
  4. 361Valentine#888#1,249
  5. 321Hilario#906#1,227

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1945