Meaning not yet researched.
Nubia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,773 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,773 in 1993; #5,062 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nubia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,062 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,773.
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Nubia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,773 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 83 (1993).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Nubia, making it the 5,062nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 791 places from #4,271 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 34 girls named Nubia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,773, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #3,581 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nubia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 2,406 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 590 babies named Nubia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 487 US girls were named Nubia; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Nobie and Nobia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nobie (496), Nobia (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nubia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,062 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,271 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,514 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,091 | — | — |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,694 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,818 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,914 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,216 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).