In 2025, 40 US girls were named Tula, making it the 3,770th most common girls’ name of the year, up 998 places from #4,768 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 29 girls named Tula in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #755, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 43, in 2019. For comparison, it was #4,713 in 2015 and #3,406 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tula in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 1,805 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 308 babies named Tula.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 334 US girls were named Tula; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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