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Juba

Boys' name

Variant of Iuba

Juba has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1973, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Juba, 1973

1 in 431,000

Juba over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Juba: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Iuba

Latin

What Juba means

Juba is a variant of Iuba.

Origin, language, and formation

Juba is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Juba comes through Latin Juba.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iuba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Juba between 1969 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1973; its best national rank was #4,283 in 1973.

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 Juba?

Juba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 431,000
7 of 3,016,706 births
Among boys only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
298,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Juba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1973 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 298,718 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jubas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Juba was born before 1973 — so the typical Juba is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Juba 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 1973 (7)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,283
1973

Spellings of Juba

Juba is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 60.6% against Juba's <0.01%.

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.

Juba around the world

Where Juba ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1984–2025
    #1,228
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Juba by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,283
1973
Peak year
1973
7 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Juba

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

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Sibling names for Juba

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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