Ulla is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ola, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ulla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,821 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,821 in 1899; #11,851 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ulla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,851 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #1,821.
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Ulla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,821 in 1899 · most girls in one year: 8 (2025).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Ulla, making it the 11,851st most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,821, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 8, in 2025. For comparison, it was #18,919 in 2015 and #6,052 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ulla in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 105 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 27 babies named Ulla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 39 US girls were named Ulla; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ursula (14,811 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 Estonian, Finnish, Galician, German, Latvian, Norwegian and Swedish. 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) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ulla 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.
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).