Meaning not yet researched.
Ulysses: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #272 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #272 in 1895; #1,201 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ulysses in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,201 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #272.
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Ulysses: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 boys in 2025. Peak: #272 in 1895 · most boys in one year: 272 (1999).
In 2025, 169 US boys were named Ulysses, making it the 1,201st most common boys’ name of the year, up 93 places from #1,294 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 152 boys named Ulysses in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #272, reached in 1895. The most boys given the name in a single year was 272, in 1999. For comparison, it was #1,085 in 2015 and #517 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ulysses in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 29 babies with the name. In all, 18,680 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,884 babies named Ulysses.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,725 US boys were named Ulysses; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,107 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ulysses ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #593 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ulises (11,959 babies since 1880) and Ulisses (1,312 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ulyses, Odysseus and Ulysess 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: Ulyses (1,446), Odysseus (526), Ulysess (463), Ulysees (397), Ulis (256), Ulysse (250), Ulyesses (36), Ulysis (22), Ulyssis (5), Ulesses (5), Ulyssess (5).
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 Ulysses 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 5 | #593 | — |
| California | 44 | #642 | #595 |
| Arizona | 10 | #670 | #1,003 |
| Utah | 6 | #697 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #987 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,012 | #829 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,212 | #1,193 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,345 | #1,024 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,450 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,533 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,021 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 169 | #1,201 |
| 2024 | — | — | 152 | #1,294 |
| 2023 | — | — | 170 | #1,191 |
| 2022 | — | — | 191 | #1,118 |
| 2021 | — | — | 180 | #1,134 |
| 2020 | — | — | 188 | #1,068 |
| 2019 | — | — | 204 | #1,022 |
| 2018 | — | — | 170 | #1,138 |
| 2017 | — | — | 157 | #1,190 |
| 2016 | — | — | 144 | #1,273 |
| 2015 | — | — | 181 | #1,085 |
| 2014 | — | — | 173 | #1,109 |
| 2013 | — | — | 165 | #1,110 |
| 2012 | — | — | 167 | #1,110 |
| 2011 | — | — | 179 | #1,054 |
| 2010 | — | — | 183 | #1,055 |
| 2009 | — | — | 196 | #1,007 |
| 2008 | — | — | 191 | #1,011 |
| 2007 | — | — | 191 | #1,013 |
| 2006 | — | — | 178 | #1,032 |
| 2005 | — | — | 177 | #985 |
| 2004 | — | — | 155 | #1,048 |
| 2003 | — | — | 145 | #1,074 |
| 2002 | — | — | 208 | #815 |
| 2001 | — | — | 226 | #760 |
| 2000 | — | — | 217 | #769 |
| 1999 | — | — | 272 | #642 |
| 1998 | — | — | 214 | #752 |
| 1997 | — | — | 155 | #897 |
| 1996 | — | — | 178 | #810 |
| 1995 | — | — | 140 | #942 |
| 1994 | — | — | 139 | #934 |
| 1993 | — | — | 146 | #884 |
| 1992 | — | — | 151 | #863 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,358 | 159 | #823 |
| 1990 | — | — | 184 | #752 |
| 1989 | — | — | 177 | #746 |
| 1988 | — | — | 180 | #698 |
| 1987 | — | — | 170 | #702 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,756 | 138 | #774 |
| 1985 | — | — | 124 | #802 |
| 1984 | — | — | 111 | #834 |
| 1983 | — | — | 103 | #866 |
| 1982 | — | — | 105 | #870 |
| 1981 | — | — | 123 | #791 |
| 1980 | — | — | 121 | #799 |
| 1979 | — | — | 121 | #787 |
| 1978 | — | — | 125 | #758 |
| 1977 | — | — | 96 | #868 |
| 1976 | — | — | 114 | #780 |
| 1975 | — | — | 108 | #804 |
| 1974 | — | — | 96 | #824 |
| 1973 | — | — | 108 | #769 |
| 1972 | — | — | 104 | #787 |
| 1971 | — | — | 118 | #760 |
| 1970 | — | — | 110 | #787 |
| 1969 | — | — | 125 | #704 |
| 1968 | — | — | 115 | #706 |
| 1967 | — | — | 143 | #629 |
| 1966 | — | — | 106 | #725 |
| 1965 | — | — | 111 | #711 |
| 1964 | — | — | 123 | #698 |
| 1963 | — | — | 127 | #690 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,521 | 132 | #676 |
| 1961 | — | — | 150 | #639 |
| 1960 | — | — | 150 | #638 |
| 1959 | — | — | 142 | #649 |
| 1958 | — | — | 153 | #623 |
| 1957 | — | — | 163 | #602 |
| 1956 | — | — | 164 | #595 |
| 1955 | — | — | 163 | #577 |
| 1954 | — | — | 172 | #557 |
| 1953 | — | — | 164 | #554 |
| 1952 | — | — | 185 | #514 |
| 1951 | — | — | 177 | #513 |
| 1950 | — | — | 168 | #517 |
| 1949 | — | — | 175 | #504 |
| 1948 | — | — | 196 | #478 |
| 1947 | — | — | 168 | #524 |
| 1946 | — | — | 158 | #511 |
| 1945 | — | — | 114 | #566 |
| 1944 | — | — | 156 | #490 |
| 1943 | — | — | 155 | #499 |
| 1942 | — | — | 144 | #511 |
| 1941 | — | — | 139 | #494 |
| 1940 | — | — | 154 | #467 |
| 1939 | — | — | 144 | #476 |
| 1938 | — | — | 153 | #469 |
| 1937 | — | — | 122 | #525 |
| 1936 | — | — | 121 | #513 |
| 1935 | — | — | 171 | #429 |
| 1934 | — | — | 143 | #477 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,808 | 140 | #476 |
| 1932 | — | — | 161 | #444 |
| 1931 | — | — | 147 | #469 |
| 1930 | — | — | 148 | #489 |
| 1929 | — | — | 158 | #466 |
| 1928 | — | — | 174 | #460 |
| 1927 | — | — | 181 | #456 |
| 1926 | — | — | 173 | #459 |
| 1925 | — | — | 192 | #429 |
| 1924 | — | — | 177 | #463 |
| 1923 | — | — | 201 | #426 |
| 1922 | — | — | 194 | #434 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,799 | 199 | #434 |
| 1920 | — | — | 190 | #440 |
| 1919 | — | — | 164 | #463 |
| 1918 | — | — | 187 | #429 |
| 1917 | — | — | 159 | #449 |
| 1916 | — | — | 160 | #442 |
| 1915 | — | — | 133 | #484 |
| 1914 | — | — | 111 | #458 |
| 1913 | — | — | 99 | #429 |
| 1912 | — | — | 75 | #460 |
| 1911 | — | — | 51 | #403 |
| 1910 | — | — | 43 | #413 |
| 1909 | — | — | 36 | #418 |
| 1908 | — | — | 33 | #421 |
| 1907 | — | — | 38 | #365 |
| 1906 | — | — | 32 | #386 |
| 1905 | — | — | 25 | #450 |
| 1904 | — | — | 29 | #389 |
| 1903 | — | — | 21 | #468 |
| 1902 | — | — | 21 | #474 |
| 1901 | — | — | 25 | #379 |
| 1900 | — | — | 34 | #384 |
| 1899 | — | — | 14 | #546 |
| 1898 | — | — | 33 | #338 |
| 1897 | — | — | 25 | #383 |
| 1896 | — | — | 32 | #337 |
| 1895 | — | — | 43 | #272 |
| 1894 | — | — | 34 | #304 |
| 1893 | — | — | 36 | #291 |
| 1892 | — | — | 27 | #374 |
| 1891 | — | — | 34 | #282 |
| 1890 | — | — | 32 | #310 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #431 |
| 1888 | — | — | 25 | #375 |
| 1887 | — | — | 27 | #324 |
| 1886 | — | — | 38 | #279 |
| 1885 | — | — | 33 | #296 |
| 1884 | — | — | 23 | #373 |
| 1883 | — | — | 14 | #494 |
| 1882 | — | — | 15 | #487 |
| 1881 | — | — | 18 | #413 |
| 1880 | — | — | 29 | #317 |
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).