Beula
Beula was last recorded in 1953, when 6 babies were given it; 1,183 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Beula?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,093, in 1953; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1921, the peak
Beula peaked in 1921, when 48 girls were given it, #1,095 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 6 | #5,093 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,366 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,729 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,612 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,403 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,840 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,777 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,858 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,754 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,217 | 12.8 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 5 | #4,316 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,397 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,316 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,481 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,896 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,822 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,805 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,820 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,601 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,506 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,196 | 35.2 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,591 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 46 | #1,139 | 37.8 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,505 | 24.8 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,131 | 38.1 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,129 | 38.3 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,095 | 38.9 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,190 | 34.2 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,091 | 39.8 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,258 | 31.1 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,112 | 37.9 |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,103 | 39.3 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,055 | 40.7 |
| 1914 | 39 | #944 | 51.2 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,042 | 43.2 |
| 1912 | 30 | #922 | 53.8 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,553 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 20 | #975 | 50.4 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,627 | 23.0 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,142 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 20 | #842 | 62.8 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,055 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,170 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,007 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,037 | 45.8 |
| 1902 | 15 | #907 | 56.8 |
| 1901 | 15 | #860 | 62.7 |
| 1900 | 16 | #944 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,105 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,052 | 42.5 |
| 1897 | 14 | #870 | 59.8 |
| 1896 | 13 | #905 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 15 | #821 | 64.2 |
| 1894 | 14 | #817 | 62.8 |
| 1893 | 12 | #870 | 56.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,297 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 12 | #801 | 64.7 |
| 1890 | 11 | #834 | 57.8 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,305 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 10 | #845 | 56.0 |
| 1887 | 7 | #954 | 48.0 |
| 1886 | 8 | #841 | 55.4 |
| 1885 | 7 | #853 | 52.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Beula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Beula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Beula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beula, and how old are they?
An estimated 66 Americans named Beula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 232 people named Beula (227 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Beula rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Beula?
Beula is a less common spelling of Beulah: SSA has recorded 1,183 Beula and 73,465 Beulah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 183,769 babies since 1880, Beula is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,424 babies recorded by SSA was a Beula (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Beula
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Beula and names like it
- Compare Beula and BeulahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBeula peaked in 1921.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beula since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Beula.
- Names starting with BMost given first.