Sula
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,404since 1880
Sula over time
Rank among girls' names. Sula has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | — | |
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| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,153 | 19 |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 |
| 1944 | #2,096 | 17 |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #2,397 | 13 |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 |
| 1935 | #1,845 | 18 |
| 1934 | #1,651 | 21 |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 |
| 1931 | #2,427 | 12 |
| 1930 | #1,934 | 18 |
| 1929 | #2,011 | 17 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 |
| 1927 | #1,935 | 20 |
| 1926 | #1,883 | 21 |
| 1925 | #1,576 | 28 |
| 1924 | #1,811 | 23 |
| 1923 | #1,736 | 24 |
| 1922 | #1,836 | 22 |
| 1921 | #1,374 | 34 |
| 1920 | #1,666 | 25 |
| 1919 | #1,481 | 28 |
| 1918 | #1,566 | 26 |
| 1917 | #1,307 | 31 |
| 1916 | #1,380 | 28 |
| 1915 | #1,367 | 27 |
| 1914 | #1,059 | 32 |
| 1913 | #1,040 | 27 |
| 1912 | #1,477 | 14 |
| 1911 | #898 | 23 |
| 1910 | #1,171 | 15 |
| 1909 | #990 | 17 |
| 1908 | #912 | 19 |
| 1907 | #790 | 22 |
| 1906 | #895 | 17 |
| 1905 | #926 | 16 |
| 1904 | #938 | 15 |
| 1903 | #931 | 14 |
| 1902 | #1,219 | 9 |
| 1901 | #747 | 19 |
| 1900 | #688 | 27 |
| 1899 | #756 | 18 |
| 1898 | #821 | 17 |
| 1897 | #786 | 16 |
| 1896 | #670 | 22 |
| 1895 | #932 | 12 |
| 1894 | #905 | 12 |
| 1893 | #767 | 15 |
| 1892 | #726 | 16 |
| 1891 | #624 | 18 |
| 1890 | #727 | 14 |
| 1889 | #620 | 17 |
| 1888 | #593 | 18 |
| 1887 | #661 | 12 |
| 1886 | #731 | 10 |
| 1885 | #842 | 7 |
| 1884 | #614 | 12 |
| 1883 | #754 | 7 |
| 1882 | #596 | 10 |
| 1881 | #740 | 6 |
| 1880 | #580 | 9 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Sula was already there! It came in at #580, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Sula is popular in 1900
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Sula
- 2,986 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #11,932)
- 1,682 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #11,932)
- 1,784 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 288 spots in 1903 (#1,219 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 579 spots in 1912 (#898 → #1,477)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #580 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1952, 72 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1880–1901
- Highest: 1 in 9,923 girls born in 1888 were named Sula (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #580 in 1880, was only 1 in 10,110 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.9% of all girls named Sula (251) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 108 | #580 (1880) | #673 |
| 1890s | 160 | #624 (1891) | #771 |
| 1900s | 175 | #688 (1900) | #904 |
| 1910s | 251 | #898 (1911) | #1,275 |
| 1920s | 223 | #1,374 (1921) | #1,899 |
| 1930s | 151 | #1,651 (1934) | #2,153 |
| 1940s | 136 | #2,096 (1944) | #2,594 |
| 1950s | 39 | #3,962 (1950) | #4,387 |
| 1960s | 22 | #5,851 (1961) | #6,323 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 19 | #12,429 (2009) | #14,343 |
| 2010s | 67 | #9,943 (2017) | #11,743 |
| 2020s | 53 | #8,946 (2024) | #10,830 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sula in 1900
Top girls' names in 1900
More about 1900
girls
299,784 girls got a published name in 1900; 1 in 11,103 of them was named Sula, which outranked 69.1% of the 2,223 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #676Prudence28
- #676Sena28
- #676Signe28
- #688Sula27
- #688Amalia27
- #688Audie27
- #688Cathrine27
- #705Aggie26
- #705Alida26
- #705Deborah26
Tied with 16 names at #688; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 940Rosia#1,596 → #656
- ↑ 763Josiephine#1,596 → #833
- ↑ 763Lelar#1,596 → #833
- ↑ 736Carmel#1,596 → #860
- ↑ 722Gloria#1,278 → #556
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.