Ulisses
Ulisses was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,826 among boys’ names; 1,312 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Ulisses and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ulisses by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ulisses mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Ulisses is “a male given name”
/uˈli.sis/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ulisses?
#5,826 among boys’ names, 2025
Ulisses fell from #3,974 in 2015 to #5,826 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 9.4 per million.
68 babies in 1999, the peak
Ulisses peaked in 1999, when 68 boys were given it, #1,599 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,826 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,159 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,258 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,197 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,611 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,955 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,822 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 15 | #6,011 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 15 | #6,038 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,299 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,974 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,121 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,172 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,614 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,204 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,630 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,047 | 34.3 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,676 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,469 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,656 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,745 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,634 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,465 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,147 | 25.8 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,906 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 60 | #1,808 | 30.5 |
| 1999 | 68 | #1,599 | 35.4 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,268 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,440 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,830 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,674 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 24 | #3,020 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,131 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,656 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,217 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,856 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,078 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,589 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,933 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,505 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,788 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,281 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,476 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,344 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,930 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,200 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #7,028 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,462 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,837 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,616 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ulisses a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ulisses has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ulisses: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ulisses, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,312 Americans ever recorded as Ulisses. The median Ulisses alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,199 people named Ulisses (8 women and girls, 1,191 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,196 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 293 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 734 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 230 |
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 Ulisses born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,922 | 1.7× |
Where Ulisses is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ulisses is most over-represented in California: since 1971 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 Ulisses 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 33,794 babies since 1880, Ulisses is the fourth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 406 babies (3.9%), the third 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 Ulisses
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 Ulisses and names like it
- Compare Ulisses and UlyssesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sUlisses peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ulisses since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Ulisses: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Ulisses.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ulisses alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with UMost given first.