Ulises

Where Ulises comes from

Ulises hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1845
    Ulises Heureaux born
    President of the Dominican Republic
  2. 1954
    First appearance
    #3,827 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1974
    Ulises Cruz born
    Ecuadorian footballer and politician
  4. 1999
    Peak, #503
    427 babies named Ulises — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,038.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ulises Cruz · Ecuadorian footballer and politician, born 1974
  • Ulises Heureaux · President of the Dominican Republic, 1845–1899
  • Ulises Dávila · Mexican footballer, born 1991
  • Ulises Poirier · Chilean footballer, 1897–1977
  • Ulises Saucedo · Bolivian footballer, 1896–1963

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.