Ursa is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ursula, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ursa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,408 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,408 in 1924; #10,057 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ursa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,057 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #4,408.
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Ursa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,408 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 15 (2023).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Ursa, making it the 10,057th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,312 places from #13,369 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 girls named Ursa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,408, reached in 1924. The most girls given the name in a single year was 15, in 2023. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ursa in 9 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 7 babies. In all, 72 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 48 babies named Ursa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 60 US girls were named Ursa; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ursula (14,811 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).
No nicknames listed for Ursa 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).