Ulyses
Ulyses was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,634 among boys’ names; 1,446 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ulyses by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ulyses?
#9,634 among boys’ names, 2025
Ulyses fell from #7,993 in 2015 to #9,634 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
43 babies in 1998, the peak
Ulyses peaked in 1998, when 43 boys were given it, #2,151 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,634 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,719 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,716 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,713 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,997 | 7.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,104 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,503 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,603 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,993 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #7,014 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #6,985 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,700 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,225 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,833 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,733 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,469 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,116 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,359 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,602 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,444 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,614 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,676 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,855 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,982 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,363 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,151 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,588 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,670 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,096 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,088 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,648 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,208 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,210 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,049 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,887 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,216 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,114 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,941 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,449 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,215 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 15 | #3,021 | 8.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,144 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,098 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,550 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,967 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,416 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,641 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,702 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,112 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,597 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,628 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,960 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,473 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #3,012 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,196 | 3.8 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,156 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,774 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,707 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,837 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,757 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,001 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,604 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,986 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,499 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,732 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,850 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,214 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,378 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,639 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,569 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,635 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,081 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,175 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,831 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,731 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,701 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,321 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,637 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,689 | 18.2 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,925 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,606 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,689 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,070 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,626 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,834 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,496 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,229 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,759 | 19.1 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,742 | 19.7 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,650 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,687 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,750 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,372 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,657 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,767 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,935 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,734 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,183 | 44.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,428 | 36.6 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,332 | 40.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,083 | 52.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ulyses a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ulyses has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ulyses: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ulyses, and how old are they?
An estimated 860 Americans named Ulyses and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 848 people named Ulyses (5 women and girls, 843 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 878 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 Ulyses born?
The states with the most babies named Ulyses are California, Georgia and Texas, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 226 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 85 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 61 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ulyses is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ulyses is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Ulyses with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ulyses?
Ulyses is a less common spelling of Ulysses: SSA has recorded 1,446 Ulyses and 18,680 Ulysses since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,534 babies since 1880, Ulyses is the third most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 406 babies (2.0%), the fourth 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 Ulyses
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 Ulyses and names like it
- Compare Ulyses and UlyssesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sUlyses peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ulyses since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Ulyses.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ulyses alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with UMost given first.