Ulises
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #16,099 · #1,038 for boys in 2025, 213 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 427 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,944since 1954
Ulises over time
Rank among boys' names. Ulises 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 | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,038 | 213 | |
| 2024 | — | #909 | 257 | |
| 2023 | — | #997 | 221 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,007 | 221 | |
| 2021 | — | #943 | 240 | |
| 2020 | — | #875 | 258 | |
| 2019 | — | #834 | 270 | |
| 2018 | — | #907 | 237 | |
| 2017 | — | #923 | 229 | |
| 2016 | — | #939 | 223 | |
| 2015 | — | #908 | 237 | |
| 2014 | — | #751 | 315 | |
| 2013 | — | #803 | 272 | |
| 2012 | — | #727 | 320 | |
| 2011 | — | #662 | 357 | |
| 2010 | — | #561 | 450 | |
| 2009 | — | #605 | 427 | |
| 2008 | — | #584 | 435 | |
| 2007 | — | #563 | 457 | |
| 2006 | — | #524 | 487 | |
| 2005 | — | #547 | 438 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #590 | 374 |
| 2003 | — | #642 | 320 | |
| 2002 | — | #542 | 408 | |
| 2001 | — | #538 | 405 | |
| 2000 | — | #556 | 378 | |
| 1999 | — | #503 | 427 | |
| 1998 | — | #563 | 350 | |
| 1997 | — | #693 | 230 | |
| 1996 | — | #642 | 261 | |
| 1995 | — | #743 | 210 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #705 | 219 |
| 1993 | — | #776 | 184 | |
| 1992 | — | #757 | 188 | |
| 1991 | — | #784 | 171 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #797 | 162 |
| 1989 | — | #864 | 135 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,058 | 88 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,088 | 78 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,286 | 57 | |
| 1985 | — | #877 | 107 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,382 | 47 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,490 | 41 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,415 | 45 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,479 | 42 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,432 | 44 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,370 | 46 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,537 | 37 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,743 | 30 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,711 | 30 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,787 | 27 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,790 | 26 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,354 | 38 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,648 | 28 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,745 | 26 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,399 | 15 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,046 | 17 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,352 | 12 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,310 | 13 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ulises! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ulises is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#343 · 1 in 2,903
- Texas#667 · 1 in 8,065
- Illinois#690 · 1 in 8,922
- Florida#703 · 1 in 9,171
- New York#862 · 1 in 12,622
Best ever in a state: #230 in California, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #343 | 100 | 1 in 2,903 |
| Texas | #667 | 19 | 1 in 8,065 |
| Illinois | #690 | 10 | 1 in 8,922 |
| Florida | #703 | 10 | 1 in 9,171 |
| New York | #862 | 11 | 1 in 12,622 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ulises
- 129 spots since 2024 (#909 → #1,038)
- 163 spots since 2020 (#875 → #1,038)
- 130 spots since 2015 (#908 → #1,038)
- Biggest jump: 505 spots in 1985 (#1,382 → #877)
- Biggest drop: 409 spots in 1986 (#877 → #1,286)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1999 at #503 (427 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1989–2021
- Highest: 1 in 4,220 boys born in 2006 were named Ulises (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,019 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #503 in 1999, was only 1 in 4,497 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.6% of all boys named Ulises (4,129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #3,827 (1954) | #3,885 |
| 1960s | 96 | #2,046 (1969) | #2,892 |
| 1970s | 303 | #1,354 (1973) | #1,708 |
| 1980s | 684 | #864 (1989) | #1,237 |
| 1990s | 2,402 | #503 (1999) | #696 |
| 2000s | 4,129 | #524 (2006) | #569 |
| 2010s | 2,910 | #561 (2010) | #802 |
| 2020s | 1,410 | #875 (2020) | #962 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ulises in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 379,709 of them was named Ulises, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 12,679 of them was named Ulises, which outranked 91.6% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).