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 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#230 · 1 in 1,321
- Nevada#253 · 1 in 1,178
- Arizona#268 · 1 in 1,447
- Oregon#347 · 1 in 2,200
- Illinois#358 · 1 in 2,418
Best ever in a state: #230 in California, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #230 | 183 | 1 in 1,321 |
| Nevada | #253 | 10 | 1 in 1,178 |
| Arizona | #268 | 25 | 1 in 1,447 |
| Oregon | #347 | 9 | 1 in 2,200 |
| Illinois | #358 | 33 | 1 in 2,418 |
| Texas | #404 | 59 | 1 in 2,791 |
| Georgia | #464 | 16 | 1 in 3,363 |
| Colorado | #492 | 7 | 1 in 3,898 |
| Minnesota | #539 | 5 | 1 in 5,814 |
| North Carolina | #610 | 9 | 1 in 5,469 |
| Florida | #698 | 13 | 1 in 6,680 |
| New York | #748 | 14 | 1 in 8,124 |
| New Jersey | #807 | 5 | 1 in 9,487 |
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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 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 4,497 of them was named Ulises, which outranked 95.7% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.