Ulysses — #1285 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ulysses

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,484 babies named Ulysses between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ulysses currently holds the #1285 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 272 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ulysses performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,884 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ulysses shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,780 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ulysses in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ulysses in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 18,484 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.