Nubia
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 83 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,406since 1969
Nubia over time
Rank among girls' names. Nubia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,987 | 26 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 |
| 2022 | #3,365 | 47 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2020 | #2,549 | 67 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 |
| 2017 | #2,925 | 56 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 |
| 2009 | #3,161 | 53 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 |
| 2006 | #3,176 | 52 |
| 2005 | #2,482 | 70 |
| 2004 | #2,620 | 63 |
| 2003 | #2,673 | 59 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 |
| 1999 | #2,737 | 50 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 |
| 1997 | #2,659 | 47 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,763 | 83 |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 |
| 1991 | #2,356 | 54 |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 |
| 1989 | #2,931 | 37 |
| 1988 | #2,597 | 41 |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 |
| 1983 | #2,433 | 38 |
| 1982 | #2,024 | 51 |
| 1981 | #1,935 | 55 |
| 1980 | #2,486 | 38 |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 |
| 1978 | #2,390 | 37 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nubia! It came in at #6,617, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nubia
- 780 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #4,987)
- 2,438 spots since 2020 (#2,549 → #4,987)
- 1,454 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #4,987)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1993 at #1,763 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,796 girls born in 1993 were named Nubia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.5% of all girls named Nubia (590) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 175 | #2,390 (1978) | #3,863 |
| 1980s | 400 | #1,935 (1981) | #2,556 |
| 1990s | 530 | #1,763 (1993) | #2,508 |
| 2000s | 590 | #2,332 (2000) | #2,791 |
| 2010s | 427 | #2,925 (2017) | #3,702 |
| 2020s | 278 | #2,549 (2020) | #3,580 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nubia in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 21,796 of them was named Nubia, which outranked 88.8% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,753Queen84
- #1,753Shayne84
- #1,753Vianca84
- #1,763Nubia83
- #1,763Alli83
- #1,763Catarina83
- #1,763Corrina83
- #1,776Amirah82
- #1,776Brigette82
- #1,776Cambria82
Tied with 12 names at #1,763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.