Bula
Bula reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 1,152, and has been recorded 1,034 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1950. About 80 Bulas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 87.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bula
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,034
- Estimated living today
- 80
- Median age today
- 87
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,152nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Bulas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,034 babies given the name since 1881, about 80 are alive — 7 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1938 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Bula is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bula is most concentrated in Alabama (12.5×), Texas (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Bula peaked:
Related names
Bula against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.