Bulah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bulah

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,027 babies named Bulah between 1880 and 1963, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bulah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1963. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 115 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bulah performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 874 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Bulah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 198 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Bulah in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bulah 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 3,027 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.