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Cuca

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cuca has been given to 234 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Cuca, 1948

1 in 432,000

Cuca over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cuca: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cuca means

Cuca is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cuca is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Cuca is pronounced /ˈkuka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Cuca between 1912 and 1948. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1925; its best national rank was #1,855 in 1925.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cuca?

Cuca had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1948
1 in 432,000
8 of 3,452,053 births
Among girls only
1 in 212,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1948
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
299,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cuca sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1948 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 299,099 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cuca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cucas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cuca was born before 1925 — so the typical Cuca is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
53.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Cuca 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (22)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,855
1925

Spellings of Cuca

Cuca is not the most common spelling — Lucy is, with 29.6% against Cuca's 0.03%.

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 Cuca is used

Across 1910–2025, Cuca was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 133,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Cuca has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cuca by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,855
1925
Peak year
1925
22 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1948
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cuca

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cuca

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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