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Ulrich

16,235 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ulrich in the 2020 census, making it the 2,178th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People
16,235
Rank
2,178th
How common
1 in 18,400
Per 100,000
5.4

Where the name comes from

Variant of Ullrich.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ulrich described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Notable people called Ulrich

People named Ulrich with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Ulrich has been given to 500 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.