Meaning not yet researched.
Ulises: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 213 in 2025. Its best rank was #503 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #503 in 1999; #1,043 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ulises in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,043 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #503.
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Ulises: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 213 boys in 2025. Peak: #503 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 487 (2006).
In 2025, 213 US boys were named Ulises, making it the 1,043rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 131 places from #912 in 2024. That is 44 fewer than the 257 boys named Ulises in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #503, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 487, in 2006. For comparison, it was #912 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ulises in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 11,959 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,134 babies named Ulises.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,369 US boys were named Ulises; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 270. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,019 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ulises ranked highest in California in 2025, at #481 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ulysses (18,680 babies since 1880), Ulisses (1,312 babies since 1880) and Ulices (1,585 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ulizes, Ulisis and Ulisess are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ulizes (15), Ulisis (12), Ulisess (10).
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 Ulises in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 67 | #481 | #437 |
| Texas | 52 | #601 | #598 |
| Arizona | 8 | #777 | #668 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #863 | #752 |
| Washington | 7 | #890 | #751 |
| Indiana | 6 | #938 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,011 | #1,177 |
| New York | 5 | #2,020 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,077 | #1,928 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 213 | #1,043 |
| 2024 | — | — | 257 | #912 |
| 2023 | — | — | 221 | #999 |
| 2022 | — | — | 221 | #1,010 |
| 2021 | — | — | 240 | #946 |
| 2020 | — | — | 258 | #878 |
| 2019 | — | — | 270 | #836 |
| 2018 | — | — | 237 | #911 |
| 2017 | — | — | 229 | #923 |
| 2016 | — | — | 223 | #940 |
| 2015 | — | — | 237 | #912 |
| 2014 | — | — | 315 | #752 |
| 2013 | — | — | 272 | #805 |
| 2012 | — | — | 320 | #729 |
| 2011 | — | — | 357 | #663 |
| 2010 | — | — | 450 | #562 |
| 2009 | — | — | 427 | #605 |
| 2008 | — | — | 435 | #584 |
| 2007 | — | — | 457 | #563 |
| 2006 | — | — | 487 | #526 |
| 2005 | — | — | 438 | #548 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,682 | 374 | #591 |
| 2003 | — | — | 320 | #642 |
| 2002 | — | — | 408 | #543 |
| 2001 | — | — | 405 | #539 |
| 2000 | — | — | 378 | #557 |
| 1999 | — | — | 427 | #503 |
| 1998 | — | — | 350 | #564 |
| 1997 | — | — | 230 | #695 |
| 1996 | — | — | 261 | #645 |
| 1995 | — | — | 210 | #743 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,662 | 219 | #706 |
| 1993 | — | — | 184 | #781 |
| 1992 | — | — | 188 | #761 |
| 1991 | — | — | 171 | #786 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,161 | 162 | #798 |
| 1989 | — | — | 135 | #869 |
| 1988 | — | — | 88 | #1,065 |
| 1987 | — | — | 78 | #1,095 |
| 1986 | — | — | 57 | #1,297 |
| 1985 | — | — | 107 | #881 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,398 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,513 |
| 1982 | — | — | 45 | #1,440 |
| 1981 | — | — | 42 | #1,498 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,447 |
| 1979 | — | — | 46 | #1,388 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,566 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,776 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,746 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,832 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,829 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,373 |
| 1972 | — | — | 28 | #1,678 |
| 1971 | — | — | 26 | #1,781 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,505 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,124 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,111 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,463 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,771 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,231 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,400 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #3,039 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #4,017 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,640 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,321 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,423 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,328 |
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).