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Tsubaki

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Tsubaki has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2011, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Tsubaki, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tsubaki: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Tsubaki means

Tsubaki is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tsubaki is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Tsubaki between 2011 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2011; its best national rank was #19,010 in 2014.

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 Tsubaki?

Tsubaki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tsubaki 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tsubaki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tsubakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tsubaki was born before 2011 — so the typical Tsubaki is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Tsubaki 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (5)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#19,010
2014

Tsubaki 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
#19,010
2014
Peak year
2011
5 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tsubaki

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

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Sibling names for Tsubaki

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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