Cubby O’Brien was the second-most-popular Mouseketeer on the original run of the Mickey Mouse Club, after Annette Funicello.
He was one of the few Mouseketeers featured in all three seasons (1955-1958), and he was the only musician among the Mouseketeers who was permitted to play on-camera. (He was a drummer.)
His real name wasn’t Cubby — it was Carl. “Cubby got his nickname from his mother, who thought he looked like a bear cub as an infant.”
But the public knew him as Cubby, so Cubby is what popped up in the U.S. baby name data:
- 1959: 5 baby boys named Cubby
- 1958: 8 baby boys named Cubby
- 1957: 10 baby boys named Cubby
- 1956: 6 baby boys named Cubby [debut]
- 1955: unlisted
- 1954: unlisted
The baby name Cubby appeared in the data for the last time in 1963.
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Sources: Mickey Mouse Club Cast: Cubby O’Brien, SSA
Image: Screenshot of The Mickey Mouse Club