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Tuba

#14,784 in 2025Girls' name

Good; a good condition, weal, through طوبی

Tuba has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #14,784 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Tuba, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tuba: meaning, origin, and history

Good; a good condition, weal, through طوبی

Arabic

What Tuba means

Tuba belongs to the name family reached through Tuba → طوبی. Its meaning is “good; a good condition, weal”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tuba is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Tuba comes through Ottoman Turkish طوبی and Arabic طُوبَى.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include طوبی.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 49 girls were recorded with the name Tuba between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2006; its best national rank was #14,784 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,905 in 2015 to #14,784 in 2025.

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 Tuba?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,784
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tuba 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tuba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tubas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tuba was born before 2006 — so the typical Tuba is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
49
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Tuba 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
+4,121
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2006 (7)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#14,784
2025

Spellings of Tuba

Tuba is not the most common spelling — Ruby is, with 28.2% against Tuba'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.

Tuba around the world

Where Tuba 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.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1982–2025
    #5,671
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1985–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tuba by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,784
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#14,784
2025
Peak year
2006
7 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Tuba

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

RubaLubaEubaYubaCubaYorubaArubaUba

Sibling names for Tuba

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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