Ulyses is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ulysses, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ulyses: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,084 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,084 in 1905; #9,638 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ulyses in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,638 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #1,084.
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Ulyses: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,084 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 43 (1998).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Ulyses, making it the 9,638th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,084, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 43, in 1998. For comparison, it was #7,998 in 2015 and #2,758 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ulyses in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 7 babies. In all, 1,446 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 264 babies named Ulyses.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 80 US boys were named Ulyses; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 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), Ulisses (1,312 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 Ulyses 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 | — | — | 8 | #9,638 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,724 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,721 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,718 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #7,002 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #8,108 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,507 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,608 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,998 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #7,019 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,990 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,706 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #6,231 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,836 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,735 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,474 |
| 2007 | — | — | 25 | #4,118 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,363 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,606 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,448 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,619 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,680 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,860 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,988 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,367 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,154 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,593 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,675 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,102 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #5,094 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,654 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,215 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,216 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,055 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,893 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,223 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,119 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,945 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,452 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,217 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #3,023 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,146 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,100 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,552 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,969 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,418 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,643 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,704 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,113 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,598 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,629 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,961 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,474 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #3,013 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,197 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,157 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,775 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,709 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,838 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,758 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #3,002 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,605 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,987 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,500 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,733 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,851 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,215 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,379 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,639 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,569 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,635 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,081 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,175 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,831 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,731 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,701 |
| 1932 | — | — | 28 | #1,321 |
| 1931 | — | — | 20 | #1,637 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,689 |
| 1929 | — | — | 17 | #1,925 |
| 1928 | — | — | 23 | #1,606 |
| 1927 | — | — | 22 | #1,689 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,070 |
| 1925 | — | — | 23 | #1,626 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,834 |
| 1923 | — | — | 26 | #1,496 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,231 |
| 1921 | — | — | 21 | #1,759 |
| 1920 | — | — | 21 | #1,742 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,651 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,688 |
| 1917 | — | — | 19 | #1,751 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,372 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,658 |
| 1914 | — | — | 14 | #1,768 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,936 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,735 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,184 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,428 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,333 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,084 |
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).