girls:
1.6k births since 1880
#4151 (27th percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1917
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1880
#6110 (21st percentile)
The name Ula is the #6,110 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,636 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 21.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,151 (27.4% percentile) for all time with 1,605 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1917.
Ula has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1917 for boys). Birth data for Ula is available in 106 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (106 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ula has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ula reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #559) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 80 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Ula reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #543) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ula".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ula", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eula" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eula..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ula. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Ula is pronounced as UE-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YUE-luh, at 38.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like UW1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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