Given name & surname · also Turkish
Tuba
Tuba is a feminine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Turkish.
Original TurkishTuğba
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tuba comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish طوبی (tuba), from Arabic طُوبَى, from Aramaic טוּבַא.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tuba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49
- 0 boys · 49 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,788 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,788 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 487 as a first name in 2020; 230 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.
Tuba’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Tuba has a related form in Tuğba.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tuba
- Tuba BüyüküstünTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1982)
- Tuba ÜnsalTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1981)
- Tuba ÖnalTurkish musician and singer (born 1974)
- Tuba YakanTurkish karateka (born 1991)
- Tooba SiddiquiPakistani modelborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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