Beulah — #5004 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Beulah

The Social Security Administration has registered 73,232 babies named Beulah between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Beulah currently holds the #5004 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 2,401 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Beulah performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 18,874 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Beulah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 4,043 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Beulah in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Beulah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 73,232 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.