Kubo

Boys' name

Heel of the foot, through Jakub

Kubo has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2017. 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 2017, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kubo, 2017

1 in 715,000

Kubo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kubo: meaning, origin, and history

Heel of the foot, through Jakub

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kubo means

Kubo belongs to the name family reached through Kubo → Jakub. Its meaning is “heel of the foot”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kubo is used in Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jakub.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Kubo is pronounced /ˈkubɔ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kubo between 2017 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2017; its best national rank was #13,403 in 2017.

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.

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How common is Kubo?

Kubo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 715,000; 5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 370,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 495,893 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kubo 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kubo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kubos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kubo was born before 2017 — so the typical Kubo is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Kubo 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2017 (5)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,403; 2017

Spellings of Kubo

Kubo is not the most common spelling — Kurt is, with 46.5% against Kubo's <0.01%.

Kurt46.5%85,858
Hugo20.3%37,482
Kobe12.2%22,513
Bo8.1%14,984
Koby3.3%6,038
Kylo2.9%5,345
Ruby1.7%3,114
Kyro1.6%2,977

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.

Kubo 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: —
Best rank ever: #13,403; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 5 that year
First recorded: 2017
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kubo

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

Kubrick Kuba

Sibling names for Kubo

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

For a sister

Raylee Aubrielle Harleigh Aminah Spencer Adelia Emmeline Mika

For a brother

Brecken Linus Arvin Titan Ramsey Ishmael Nixon Ephraim

Explore around Kubo

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