Ulises
Ulises was given to 213 boys in 2025, #1,043 among boys’ names; 11,959 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Ulises and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ulises by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ulises mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Ulises is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Ulysses”
From Latin Ulixēs.
/uˈlises/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ulises?
#1,043 among boys’ names, 2025
Ulises fell from #912 in 2015 to #1,043 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born held at 0.12 per 1,000.
487 babies in 2006, the peak
Ulises peaked in 2006, when 487 boys were given it, #526 among boys’ names. The 213 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 213 | #1,043 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 257 | #912 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 221 | #999 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 221 | #1,010 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 240 | #946 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 258 | #878 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 270 | #836 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 237 | #911 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 229 | #923 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 223 | #940 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 237 | #912 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 315 | #752 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 272 | #805 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 320 | #729 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 357 | #663 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 450 | #562 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 427 | #605 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 435 | #584 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 457 | #563 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 487 | #526 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 438 | #548 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 374 | #591 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 320 | #642 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 408 | #543 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 405 | #539 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 378 | #557 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 427 | #503 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 350 | #564 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 230 | #694 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 261 | #644 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 210 | #740 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 219 | #705 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 184 | #779 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 188 | #759 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 171 | #782 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 162 | #794 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 135 | #866 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 107 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,497 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 44 | #1,447 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,829 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,373 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,678 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,780 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,123 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,770 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #3,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #4,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,327 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ulises a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ulises has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ulises: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ulises, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,959 Americans ever recorded as Ulises. The median Ulises alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 14,115 people named Ulises (50 women and girls, 14,065 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 40 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 359 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ulises born?
The states with the most babies named Ulises are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 67 | #481 | 2.9× |
| Texas | 52 | #601 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #863 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,011 | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 8 | #777 | 1.8× |
| Washington | 7 | #890 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 6 | #938 | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | #2,020 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,077 | 0.5× |
Where Ulises is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ulises is most over-represented in California: since 1954 it was given 2.9 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 boys’ 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 Ulises with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,582 babies since 1880, Ulises is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 213 of their 406 babies (52%), the most given that year.
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 Ulises
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 Ulises and names like it
- Compare Ulises and UlyssesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sUlises peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ulises since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Ulises: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Ulises.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ulises alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with UMost given first.