Tulah — girls' name
22 babies named Tulah in U.S. Social Security records since 2008, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Tulah was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Tulah in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tulah
The Social Security Administration has registered 22 babies named Tulah between 2008 and 2022, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tulah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tulah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tulah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tulah 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 22 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.
Tulah at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tulah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2008
- Peak year (2008)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 15 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
22 total births across 15 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 6 births in a single year.
Tulah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 11 births that decade — 50% of Tulah's all-time total
Tulah decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tulah's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2008–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.