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Ula

Ula reached its high-water mark in 1924 at number 1,031, and has been recorded 1,649 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 450 Ulas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ula boys named Ula

By the numbers

Total US births
1,649
Estimated living today
450
Median age today
62
Peak year
1924
Best rank
1,031st
Rank in 2025
14,942nd
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
1,618 / 31

How old the living Ulas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,649 babies given the name since 1880, about 450 are alive — 27 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 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 the name comes from

Rare non-standard spelling of Eula.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Ula is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1924

The most popular girls’ names the year Ula peaked:

All the names of 1924

Ula elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Ula 175 2,195th
Poland girls Ula 36 birth registrations 440th
Ireland girls Ula 10 747th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ula: rank by region

In 2025, Ula was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
WarmiƄsko-Mazurskie Ula 131 2

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Ula 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.