Eulah
Eulah was last recorded in 1963, when 5 babies were given it; 1,871 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eulah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eulah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eulah is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Eula.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eulah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,907, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1915, the peak
Eulah peaked in 1915, when 63 girls were given it, #824 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #6,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,676 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 8 | #4,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,791 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,662 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,017 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,184 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,468 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 62 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 55 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 62 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 57 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 56 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 54 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 63 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 39 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 41 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 36 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 33 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 25 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 23 | #851 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 24 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 31 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 34 | #615 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 26 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 27 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 22 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 20 | #779 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 26 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 26 | #709 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 22 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 15 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 15 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 18 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 21 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 17 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 24 | #581 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 15 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 13 | #762 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 16 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 13 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 12 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 13 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 11 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 6 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 8 | #812 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 5 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 5 | #865 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eulah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eulah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eulah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eulah, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Eulah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (9% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 76 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 330 people named Eulah (324 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Eulah born?
The states with the most babies named Eulah are Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Missouri and West Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 123 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Missouri | 104 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| West Virginia | 85 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| North Carolina | 28 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 26 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Eulah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eulah is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eulah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Eulah?
Eulah is a less common spelling of Eula: SSA has recorded 1,871 Eulah and 47,491 Eula since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 408,505 babies since 1880, Eulah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,113 babies recorded by SSA was a Eulah (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 Eulah
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 Eulah and names like it
- Compare Eulah and EulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEulah peaked in 1915.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eulah since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Eulah.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Eulah alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with EMost given first.