Nubia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nuβja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nubia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 45th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 656(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 656 (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nubia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #214 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 46 | Nubia | 116 |
| BR Brazil | #619 | 45,516 | 1 in 4.7K | 49K | Nubia | 129 |
| NI Nicaragua | #45 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 656 | — | Nubia | 19 |
| VE Venezuela | #589 | 6,419 | 1 in 4.5K | 6.4K | Nubia | 33 |
| US United States | — | 6,253 | 1 in 53K | 6.2K | Nubia | 232 |
| HN Honduras | #283 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Nubia | 18 |
| SV El Salvador | #440 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Nubia | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nubia Muñozb. 1940COColombian scientist
- Nubia Villacísb. 1944ECEcuadorian basketball player
- Nubia Martíb. 1954MXMexican actress (born 1954)
- Núbia Cozzolinob. 1958BRBrazilian politician
- Nubia Villacísb. 1972ECEcuadorian journalist
- Núbia Óliiverb. 1973BRBrazilian actress
- Sandrinhab. 1975BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer
- Núbia Soaresb. 1996BRBrazilian triple jumper
- Nubia Barahonab. 2000USmurder victim
- Nubia França da Silva GiehlBRBrazilian entomologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 49K | #798 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 49K | #300 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 46K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45K | #603 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 45K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 44K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 40K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 31K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 14K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 8.9K | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nubia mean, and where does it come from?
- The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nubia?
- A machine transcription gives /nuβja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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.
- In which country does Nubia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Nubia in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nubia.
- How common is the name Nubia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 45,516 people named Nubia in 2022, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Nubia compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Nubia is the 214th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nubia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nubiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 214th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.