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Xuxa

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Xuxa has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1994, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Xuxa, 1995

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xuxa: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xuxa means

Xuxa is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Xuxa is used in Portuguese.

Xuxa is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Xuxa is pronounced /ˈʃu.ʃɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 29 girls were recorded with the name Xuxa between 1991 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1994; its best national rank was #10,540 in 1994.

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 Xuxa?

Xuxa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xuxa 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 1995 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xuxa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xuxas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xuxa was born before 1993 — so the typical Xuxa is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
29
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1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Xuxa 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 1994 (8)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,540
1994

Spellings of Xuxa

Xuxa is not the most common spelling — Luna is, with 30.3% against Xuxa'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.

Xuxa 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
#10,540
1994
Peak year
1994
8 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Xuxa

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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