Meaning not yet researched.
Ulisses: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,602 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,602 in 1999; #5,828 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ulisses in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,828 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,602.
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Ulisses: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,602 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 68 (2009).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Ulisses, making it the 5,828th most common boys’ name of the year, up 336 places from #6,164 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 boys named Ulisses in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,602, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 68, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,976 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ulisses in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,312 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 504 babies named Ulisses.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 156 US boys were named Ulisses; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ulysses (18,680 babies since 1880), Ulises (11,959 babies since 1880) and Ulices (1,585 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 Ulisses 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,828 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,263 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,201 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,615 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,959 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,827 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #6,015 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #6,042 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,303 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,976 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,124 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,174 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,617 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,206 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,631 |
| 2009 | — | — | 68 | #2,048 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,677 |
| 2007 | — | — | 52 | #2,469 |
| 2006 | — | — | 45 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,749 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,638 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,469 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,151 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,910 |
| 2000 | — | — | 60 | #1,812 |
| 1999 | — | — | 68 | #1,602 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,271 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,443 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,835 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,679 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #3,026 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,137 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,662 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,223 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,862 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,084 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,594 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,937 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,507 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,791 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,285 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,478 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,346 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,932 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,202 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #7,030 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,464 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,839 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,618 |
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).