Ulysess
Ulysess was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 463 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ulysess by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ulysess?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,110, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1926, the peak
Ulysess peaked in 1926, when 15 boys were given it, #2,178 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #12,110 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,377 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,380 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,179 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,280 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,482 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,185 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,810 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,392 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,997 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 6 | #4,113 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,521 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,520 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,562 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,598 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,332 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,060 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,253 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,967 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,197 | 3.8 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,157 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,129 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,341 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,653 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,774 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,847 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,384 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,868 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,552 | 7.0 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,640 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,117 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,600 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,177 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,158 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,010 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,928 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,161 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,203 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,238 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,993 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,002 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,960 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,379 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,427 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,178 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,576 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,482 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,154 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,337 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,616 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,246 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,371 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,352 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,547 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,475 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,601 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,239 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,520 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ulysess a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ulysess has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ulysess: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ulysess, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Ulysess and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 43 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Ulysess (4 women and girls, 230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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).
How common is the spelling Ulysess?
Ulysess is a less common spelling of Ulysses: SSA has recorded 463 Ulysess and 18,680 Ulysses since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,198 babies since 1880, Ulysess is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 390 babies recorded by SSA was a Ulysess (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ulysess
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 Ulysess and names like it
- Compare Ulysess and UlyssesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sUlysess peaked in 1926.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ulysess since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Ulysess.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ulysess alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with UMost given first.