Ula
Ula was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,084 among girls’ names; 1,649 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ula mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ula 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 Ula?
#17,084 among girls’ names, 2025
Ula fell from #11,769 in 2015 to #17,084 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.1 per million.
64 babies in 1924, the peak
Ula peaked in 1924, when 64 babies were given it (56 girls, #1,045 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,084 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,067 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,469 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,113 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,417 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,798 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,769 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,089 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,893 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,355 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #13,368 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,618 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,609 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,536 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,941 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,276 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,132 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,839 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,502 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,442 | 3.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,103 | 4.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,535 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,125 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,549 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,530 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,345 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,040 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,435 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,138 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,556 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,444 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,792 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,269 | 4.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,666 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,605 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,058 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,683 | 5.9 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,087 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,248 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,573 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,103 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,701 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,647 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,840 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,861 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,762 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,589 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,446 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,091 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,346 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,420 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,828 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,289 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,571 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,802 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,555 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,442 | 26.0 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,717 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,370 | 27.8 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,716 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,944 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,333 | 29.1 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,430 | 26.6 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,335 | 29.6 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,888 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,258 | 33.5 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,260 | 32.9 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,344 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,045 | 44.8 |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,064 | 43.1 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,185 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,294 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,169 | 35.9 |
| 1919 | 54 | #982 | 47.8 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,253 | 32.0 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,332 | 28.7 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,125 | 38.3 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,312 | 30.5 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,340 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,595 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,535 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,231 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 22 | #937 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,145 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,348 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,368 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 16 | #959 | 54.2 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,407 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,165 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,303 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 14 | #968 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 16 | #854 | 66.8 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,164 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,174 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 22 | #717 | 85.0 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,776 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,043 | 46.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,289 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,693 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,422 | 28.2 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,088 | 43.1 |
| 1890 | 10 | #936 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 11 | #838 | 61.7 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,029 | 48.0 |
| 1885 | 10 | #742 | 75.2 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,166 | 38.8 |
| 1882 | 7 | #807 | 64.9 |
| 1880 | 5 | #938 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,649 Americans recorded as Ula, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ula, and how old are they?
An estimated 435 Americans named Ula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 21 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 747 people named Ula (715 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 511 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,837 babies since 1880, Ula is the most given (90% 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 Ula
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 Ula and names like it
- Compare Ula and UllaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sUla peaked in 1924.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ula since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Ula.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ula alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with UMost given first.