Ulysee vs Ulyses

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ulysee Ulyses

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 105 years in which either name was published, Ulyses for 83 years and Ulysee for 22 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.

• 1905–1933 Ulyses ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1941–1963 Ulysee ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1967–2025 Ulyses ahead

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Ulysees alive today are over 74; half the Ulyseses are over 26. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Ulysee Georgia (32.8×)
• Ulyses Georgia (7.1×), California (5.3×), South Carolina (4.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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