Bula vs Bulah
American parents have registered 3,027 Bulahs since 1880, against 1,034 Bulas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Bula Bulah
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 79 years in which either name was published, Bulah for 77 years and Bula for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Bula | Bulah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,034 | 3,027 |
| Most in one year | 43 | 115 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 80 | 310 |
| Median age today | 87 | 83 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 1,152nd girls | 646th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1881 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 1,034 / 0 | 3,027 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Bulas alive today are over 87; half the Bulahs are over 83. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bula and Bulah.