Ursel — unisex name
16 babies named Ursel in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1915. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
69% of everyone ever named Ursel was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Ursel in 1915 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ursel
The Social Security Administration has registered 16 babies named Ursel between 1915 and 1957, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ursel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1957. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Ursel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1917.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ursel performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Ursel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ursel 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 16 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.
Ursel at a glance
Last recorded 1957Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ursel popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1957–1915
- Peak year (1915)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1957.
16 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1915 with 6 births in a single year.
Ursel popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 1917 (Ursel as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Ursel accounts for 24% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ursel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 11 births that decade — 69% of Ursel's all-time total
Ursel decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Ursel's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 69% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1957 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.