Buelah
Buelah was last recorded in 1966, when 6 babies were given it; 1,363 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Buelah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Buelah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,865, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1927, the peak
Buelah peaked in 1927, when 58 girls were given it, #1,001 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #5,865 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,082 | 3.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,189 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,920 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,313 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,274 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,638 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,489 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,790 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,922 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 8 | #3,924 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,469 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,048 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,615 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,727 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,571 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,811 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,277 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,439 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,747 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,464 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,209 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,697 | 19.2 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,487 | 23.8 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,521 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,515 | 23.8 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,455 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,425 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,276 | 31.1 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,895 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,314 | 29.5 |
| 1927 | 58 | #1,001 | 48.6 |
| 1926 | 52 | #1,033 | 43.9 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,178 | 35.3 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,246 | 32.8 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,271 | 31.5 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,312 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 53 | #1,035 | 43.0 |
| 1920 | 52 | #1,031 | 43.4 |
| 1919 | 55 | #955 | 48.7 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,075 | 39.7 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,343 | 27.7 |
| 1916 | 48 | #997 | 46.0 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,261 | 31.5 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,123 | 38.1 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,020 | 44.8 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,222 | 34.0 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,311 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 24 | #878 | 60.5 |
| 1909 | 22 | #871 | 63.4 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,011 | 47.9 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,042 | 43.9 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,430 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 18 | #876 | 61.7 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,270 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 13 | #981 | 49.6 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,078 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 13 | #923 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,057 | 43.4 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,289 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,738 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,279 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 19 | #729 | 79.9 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,060 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,513 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,190 | 32.9 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,356 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,015 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,308 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Buelah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Buelah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Buelah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Buelah, and how old are they?
An estimated 159 Americans named Buelah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 76 and 89. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 181 people named Buelah (181 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,424 babies since 1880, Buelah is the second most given (25% of them).
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 Buelah
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 Buelah and names like it
- Compare Buelah and BulahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBuelah peaked in 1927.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Buelah since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Buelah.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Buelah alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.