Bubba
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 35 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 503since 1945
Bubba over time
Rank among boys' names. Bubba 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
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| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
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| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #2,606 | 14 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #2,327 | 12 |
| 1965 | #1,774 | 20 |
| 1964 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #1,318 | 35 |
| 1962 | #1,387 | 32 |
| 1961 | #1,635 | 24 |
| 1960 | #1,658 | 24 |
| 1959 | #1,559 | 26 |
| 1958 | #1,953 | 17 |
| 1957 | #1,887 | 18 |
| 1956 | #1,821 | 19 |
| 1955 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #1,762 | 19 |
| 1953 | #2,391 | 11 |
| 1952 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #2,662 | 9 |
| 1950 | #2,321 | 11 |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bubba! It came in at #2,996, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1949, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bubba is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#911 · 1 in 20,442
Best ever in a state: #297 in Mississippi, 1962.
Show every state
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| Texas | #911 | 6 | 1 in 20,442 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bubba
- 14 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1963 at #1,318 (35 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 58,031 boys born in 1963 were named Bubba (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Bubba (191) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | #2,996 (1945) | #3,343 |
| 1950s | 155 | #1,559 (1959) | #2,083 |
| 1960s | 191 | #1,318 (1963) | #2,053 |
| 1970s | 80 | #2,606 (1973) | #3,529 |
| 1980s | 37 | #4,234 (1982) | #5,808 |
| 1990s | 6 | #7,271 (1991) | #7,271 |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 23 | #9,823 (2022) | #11,169 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bubba in 1960
Top boys' names in 1960
More about 1960
boys
2,132,320 boys got a published name in 1960; 1 in 88,847 of them was named Bubba, which outranked 63.9% of the 4,598 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,619Renwick25
- #1,619Rodman25
- #1,619Wanda25
- #1,658Bubba24
- #1,658Barrie24
- #1,658Britton24
- #1,658Carlin24
- #1,692Albin23
- #1,692Augustin23
- #1,692Benigno23
Tied with 33 names at #1,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.