Ulla
Ulla was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,847 among girls’ names; 105 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ulla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ulla mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Ulla is “a female given name”
Short form of Ulrika. First recorded in Sweden in 1771. Later also used as a pet form of Ursula and Hulda.
/²ɵla/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ulla?
#11,847 among girls’ names, 2025
Ulla rose from #18,913 in 2015 to #11,847 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 5.0 per million.
8 babies in 2025, the peak
Ulla peaked in 2025, when 8 girls were given it, #11,847 among girls’ names. SSA did not list it in 2024.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,847 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,037 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,107 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,372 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,950 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,004 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,913 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,379 | 2.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,550 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,579 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #6,526 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,942 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,448 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,050 | 2.9 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,824 | 4.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,796 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,690 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,526 | 4.3 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,820 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ulla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ulla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ulla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ulla, and how old are they?
An estimated 75 Americans named Ulla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 779 people named Ulla (768 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15.0 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,837 babies since 1880, Ulla is the second most given (5.7% 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.
More about Ulla and names like it
- Compare Ulla and UlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sUlla peaked in 2025.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ulla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ulla.
- Names starting with UMost given first.