Ula is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Eula, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ula: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #717 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #717 in 1898; #17,088 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ula in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#17,088 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #717.
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Ula: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #717 in 1898 · most girls in one year: 56 (1924).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Ula, making it the 17,088th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,016 places from #12,072 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Ula in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #717, reached in 1898. The most girls given the name in a single year was 56, in 1924. For comparison, it was #11,774 in 2015 and #3,649 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ula in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 1,649 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 426 babies named Ula.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42 US girls were named Ula; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eula (47,491 babies since 1880) and Ola (30,275 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Ula 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 | 5 | #17,088 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,072 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,474 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,118 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,422 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,803 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,774 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,094 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,898 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,362 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,374 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,624 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,614 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,541 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,948 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,282 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,138 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,846 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,510 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,448 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,105 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,537 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,127 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,551 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,347 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,041 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,437 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,140 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,557 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,445 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,667 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,059 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,574 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,863 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,260 | 5 | #4,783 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,045 | 8 | #3,481 |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,185 | 8 | #3,512 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,169 | 5 | #4,931 |
| 1919 | 54 | #982 | — | — |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,332 | 5 | #4,541 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1910 | 22 | #937 | — | — |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #959 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1902 | 14 | #968 | — | — |
| 1901 | 16 | #854 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1898 | 22 | #717 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #936 | — | — |
| 1889 | 11 | #838 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #742 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #807 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #938 | — | — |
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).