Eula

Where Eula comes from

The dictionaries list Eula as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, a short form of Eulalia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #179 among girls — 70 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1908
    Peak, #122
    558 babies named Eula — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1952
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #531.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, a short form of Eulalia.
Namesakes

No widely known Eula turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.