Meaning not yet researched.
Beulah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #72 in 1904.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #72 in 1904; #5,949 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Beulah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,949 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1904, at #72.
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Beulah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #72 in 1904 · most girls in one year: 2,401 (1916).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Beulah, making it the 5,949th most common girls’ name of the year, down 909 places from #5,040 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 26 girls named Beulah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #72, reached in 1904. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,401, in 1916. For comparison, it was #8,075 in 2015 and #478 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Beulah in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 131 babies. In all, 73,465 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 18,949 babies named Beulah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 183 US girls were named Beulah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Beaulah (2,273 babies since 1880) and Bella (83,766 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Beulah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,949 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,786 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,529 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,736 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,671 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,847 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,856 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,075 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,638 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,205 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,200 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,439 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,545 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,076 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,155 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,590 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,059 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,804 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,133 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,587 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,258 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,963 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,906 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,438 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,120 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,714 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,860 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,200 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,703 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,613 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,017 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,159 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,384 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,790 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,475 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,619 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1964 | 78 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1963 | 92 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1961 | 95 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1960 | 80 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1959 | 117 | #978 | — | — |
| 1958 | 131 | #892 | — | — |
| 1957 | 142 | #851 | — | — |
| 1956 | 138 | #845 | — | — |
| 1955 | 153 | #776 | — | — |
| 1954 | 195 | #657 | — | — |
| 1953 | 182 | #665 | — | — |
| 1952 | 201 | #620 | — | — |
| 1951 | 233 | #552 | — | — |
| 1950 | 288 | #478 | — | — |
| 1949 | 317 | #448 | — | — |
| 1948 | 327 | #439 | — | — |
| 1947 | 371 | #424 | — | — |
| 1946 | 353 | #408 | — | — |
| 1945 | 392 | #347 | — | — |
| 1944 | 462 | #315 | — | — |
| 1943 | 503 | #310 | — | — |
| 1942 | 508 | #306 | — | — |
| 1941 | 554 | #270 | — | — |
| 1940 | 621 | #253 | — | — |
| 1939 | 574 | #259 | — | — |
| 1938 | 689 | #237 | 5 | #3,571 |
| 1937 | 719 | #225 | 5 | #3,576 |
| 1936 | 743 | #221 | 5 | #3,595 |
| 1935 | 845 | #202 | 6 | #3,297 |
| 1934 | 931 | #191 | — | — |
| 1933 | 896 | #189 | 5 | #3,701 |
| 1932 | 999 | #184 | 7 | #3,117 |
| 1931 | 1,063 | #173 | 11 | #2,338 |
| 1930 | 1,210 | #168 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 1929 | 1,279 | #161 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,421 | #154 | 7 | #3,392 |
| 1927 | 1,657 | #145 | 7 | #3,487 |
| 1926 | 1,650 | #148 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,777 | #143 | 8 | #3,180 |
| 1924 | 2,006 | #138 | 5 | #4,417 |
| 1923 | 2,050 | #129 | 9 | #2,966 |
| 1922 | 2,097 | #124 | 8 | #3,284 |
| 1921 | 2,313 | #116 | 9 | #3,003 |
| 1920 | 2,376 | #109 | 6 | #3,864 |
| 1919 | 2,212 | #108 | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1918 | 2,363 | #104 | 9 | #2,904 |
| 1917 | 2,232 | #102 | 12 | #2,297 |
| 1916 | 2,401 | #97 | 7 | #3,210 |
| 1915 | 2,268 | #95 | 14 | #1,984 |
| 1914 | 1,775 | #96 | — | — |
| 1913 | 1,641 | #85 | 6 | #2,535 |
| 1912 | 1,607 | #80 | 8 | #1,902 |
| 1911 | 1,244 | #79 | 8 | #1,299 |
| 1910 | 1,131 | #82 | 6 | #1,438 |
| 1909 | 1,052 | #80 | — | — |
| 1908 | 1,015 | #82 | 5 | #1,395 |
| 1907 | 1,092 | #73 | — | — |
| 1906 | 980 | #75 | — | — |
| 1905 | 968 | #77 | — | — |
| 1904 | 983 | #72 | — | — |
| 1903 | 920 | #72 | — | — |
| 1902 | 873 | #77 | 5 | #1,162 |
| 1901 | 859 | #74 | — | — |
| 1900 | 974 | #78 | 7 | #1,060 |
| 1899 | 770 | #76 | — | — |
| 1898 | 783 | #82 | 6 | #1,021 |
| 1897 | 688 | #81 | — | — |
| 1896 | 750 | #77 | — | — |
| 1895 | 760 | #74 | — | — |
| 1894 | 675 | #79 | — | — |
| 1893 | 622 | #80 | — | — |
| 1892 | 638 | #77 | 6 | #971 |
| 1891 | 526 | #81 | — | — |
| 1890 | 573 | #79 | — | — |
| 1889 | 498 | #81 | — | — |
| 1888 | 426 | #95 | — | — |
| 1887 | 355 | #90 | — | — |
| 1886 | 345 | #98 | — | — |
| 1885 | 309 | #96 | — | — |
| 1884 | 233 | #113 | — | — |
| 1883 | 217 | #107 | — | — |
| 1882 | 190 | #112 | — | — |
| 1881 | 162 | #112 | — | — |
| 1880 | 131 | #123 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).