Cuba is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Recently, the name Cuba has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Cuba. That means that a girl named Cuba is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cuba.
Is the name Cuba a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1898 – at that time, it landed at position 568 with 29 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Cuba is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Cuba, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cuba was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Cuba born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Cuba born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Cuba, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Cuba living in one state or another (if your name is Cuba and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 121,665 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Cuba. So, if your name is Cuba it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Cuba already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Cuba is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cuba and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cuba, you can simply say:
Cat
Unicorn
Butterfly
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cuba
Cuba
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
U
B
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
U
B
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cuba sounds like this:
