Bubba
#12,337 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bubba has been given to 503 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #12,337 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 35 recorded.
Babies named Bubba, 2025
1 in 663,000
Bubba over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bubba?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,337
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bubba sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bubba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bubbas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bubba was born before 1963 — so the typical Bubba is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 38.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 492
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (191).
Is Bubba rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −11
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 14.3%
- Peak was 1963 (35)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Bubba
Bubba is not the most common spelling — Bobby is, with 99.8% against Bubba's 0.16%.
- Bobby99.8%315,053
- Bubba0.16%503
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bubba is used
Across 1910–2025, Bubba was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 189,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bubba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bubba by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bubba
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bubba
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.