Cuba

Where Cuba comes from

Cuba hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,093 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #597
    29 babies named Cuba — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #878.
  4. 1968
    Cuba Gooding Jr. born
    American actor
  5. 1993
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. · American actor, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.