Given name & surname
Bubba
“a boy”
Bubba is used as a given name, a surname, and a nickname. One German interpretation is “a boy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a boy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1945. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bubba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 503
- 503 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,341 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,341 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 35 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,642 as a first name in 2020; 105 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bubba’s family of names
Bubba has a related form in Buba. Bubba has a related form in Bubah. Bubba has a related form in Bubbah.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Bubba
- Bubba SmithAmerican football player and actor (1945–2011)
- Bubba WatsonAmerican professional golferborn 1978
- Bubba WallaceAmerican stock car racing driverborn 1993
- Bubba StarlingAmerican professional baseball playerborn 1992
- Bubba Franksplayer of American footballborn 1978
- Bubba ShobertAmerican motorcycle racerborn 1962
- Bubba ParisAmerican football player (born 1960)
- Bubba BrooksAmerican musician1922–2002
- Bubba HarrisAmerican bicycle motocross riderborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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