Beulah

Where Beulah comes from

A biblical name applied to the land of Israel in Isaiah 62:4, from Biblical Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bəʿûlâ, “married (woman)”), taken up as a given name by Puritans and used figuratively for the New Earth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Beulah
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #122 among girls — 131 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Beulah Louise Henry born
    American business woman and inventor
  3. 1888
    Beulah Bondi born
    American actress
  4. 1904
    Peak, #72
    983 babies named Beulah — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #315.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Beulah Bondi · American actress, 1888–1981
  • Beulah Louise Henry · American business woman and inventor, 1887–1973
  • Beulah Quo · Chinese-American actress and activist, 1923–2002
  • Beulah Marie Dix · American screenwriter, children's book author, 1876–1970
  • Beulah Annan · American suspected murderer, 1899–1928

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.