Given name & surname
Cuba
“from the island”
Cuba is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “from the island.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “from the island.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
From Spanish Cuba, from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cuba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 616
- 47 boys · 569 girls
- Most popular year
- 1898
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 293 as a first name in 2020; 2,033 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Cuba
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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