Tula
Tula was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,769 among girls’ names; 1,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tula?
#3,769 among girls’ names, 2025
Tula rose from #4,712 in 2015 to #3,769 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 24.9 per million.
43 babies in 2019, the peak
Tula peaked in 2019, when 43 girls were given it, #3,608 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,769 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,766 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,266 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,957 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,708 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,147 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,608 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,550 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,139 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,834 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,712 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,442 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,305 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,387 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,345 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,094 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,188 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,267 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,532 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,338 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,228 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,681 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,015 | 6.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,803 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,907 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,721 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,282 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,211 | 4.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,469 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,854 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,522 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,753 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,602 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,056 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,916 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,804 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,042 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,703 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,936 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,184 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,357 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,405 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,166 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,249 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,430 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,017 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,364 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,361 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,023 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,651 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,263 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,406 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,408 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,566 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,907 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,510 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,913 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,278 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,767 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,118 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,867 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,656 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,699 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,887 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,518 | 25.2 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,716 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,639 | 22.2 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,350 | 29.6 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,728 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,401 | 28.3 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,762 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,245 | 32.5 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,211 | 34.5 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,297 | 30.2 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,602 | 22.2 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,328 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,791 | 19.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,812 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,148 | 38.4 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,347 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,439 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,123 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,144 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,403 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 17 | #944 | 53.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,200 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,406 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,851 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,427 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,210 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,326 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,419 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 19 | #755 | 81.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,952 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,029 | 47.0 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,805 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,199 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 13 | #902 | 58.3 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,421 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,163 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,325 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,089 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,264 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,030 | 44.8 |
| 1886 | 7 | #988 | 48.4 |
| 1882 | 7 | #806 | 64.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tula, and how old are they?
An estimated 881 Americans named Tula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,299 people named Tula (1,157 women and girls, 142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,861 babies since 1880, Tula is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 40 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Tula
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.
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