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
Beulah through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #122 among girls, with 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, its best rank.
  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.