Nubia

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nubia is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 780◐
  • COColombia1 in 1.5K
  • BRBrazil1 in 4.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈55K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
210 ●

126K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.7K ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Núbia in AO Angola.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nubia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#53845,516△15K rec.1 in 4.7K49KNubia130
CO Colombia#19841,23421K rec.—46Nubia111
VE Venezuela#70333,90214K rec.—6.4KNubia33
MX Mexico#87624,06918K rec.—71Nubia121
NI Nicaragua#3819,28619K rec.——Nubia18
US United States—6,24019K rec.1 in 53K6.2KNubia210
SV El Salvador#3385,7634.8K rec.——Nubia15
CL Chile—3,932298 rec.—1Nubia43
HN Honduras#2643,4103.4K rec.——Nubia17
EC Ecuador—2,417△90 rec.1 in 7K2.4KNubia25
CR Costa Rica—5891.6K rec.1 in 8.7K589—20
ES Spain—5291.7K rec.1 in 95K529Nubia67

Roughly 46K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 4.7K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese735K74%
  • Spanish160K16%
  • English79K8%
  • 2.8K1%
  • French7531%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese735,22774%
Spanish160,39716%
English79,1968%
2,7841%
French7531%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nubia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name84K records spelled Nubia21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nubie, Nu'Bia, Núbia, Nubien, Nùbia

  • a separate given name3.2K records spelled Nubia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Núbia, Nùbia

  • French given name1.6K records spelled Nubia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Nubie, Núbia

  • Hindi given name927 records spelled Nubia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Canada, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Núbia

  • Lao given name681 records spelled Nubia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written นูเบีย, นู๊เบีย, Núbíá, Núbia, นู๋เบีย

  • Russian given name443 records spelled Nubia8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Нубия, Núbia, Nubiia

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nubia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, region in Nile valley

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • 1 have seen it.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In pap, cloud

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030401940196019802000202038 · 1957

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Nubia in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1921–2021
Yearrecords
19211
19221
19231
19242
19264
19275
19282
19293
19306
19311
19324
19337
19347
19353
19368
193710
19388
193911
194011
194117
194212
194316
19448
194516
194618
194713
194815
194916
195017
195117
195222
195326
195434
195521
195635
195738
195830
195932
196037
196130
196238
196328
196428
196538
196634
196734
196831
196933
197022
197132
197218
197322
197424
197516
197617
197717
197813
197922
19807
198116
19828
198312
198414
19859
19868
19876
19889
19897
199012
19919
19925
19938
19947
19964
19973
19982
19992
20001
20011
20022
20031
20041
20052
20073
20081
20091
20102
20121
20131
20142
20161
20171
20201
20211

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 94 years between 1921–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Nubia Muñoz, b. 1940Nubia Villacís, b. 1944Nubia Martí, b. 1954Núbia Cozzolino, b. 1958Nubia Villacís, b. 1972Núbia Óliiver, b. 1973Sandrinha, b. 1975Núbia Soares, b. 1996Nubia Barahona, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Nubia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—49K#798
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—49K#300
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202246K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45K#603
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202045K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201044K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200040K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199031K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198017K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)198014K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)197010K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)19908.9K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 491 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nubia?
We estimate roughly 55 thousand people bear Nubia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Nubia have the most bearers?
We estimate about 46 thousand people bear Nubia in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nubia.
How common is Nubia compared with other names?
In Brazil, Nubia is the 538th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Nubia a male or female name?
Nubia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nubia mean?
Recorded meaning: The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nubia” — the 538th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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