Cuba

Where Cuba comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cuba.

  • Vowel-ended
Cuba through the years
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,093 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #597
    29 babies named Cuba, the most in any year.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #878.
  4. 1968
    Cuba Gooding Jr. born
    American actor
  5. 1993
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. · American actor, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.