boys:
474 births since 1914
#4112 (10th percentile)
overall:
474 births since 1914
#7265 (6th percentile)
The name Ulrich is the #7,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 474 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,112 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 474 births since 1914.
Ulrich first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for boys in 1914). Birth data for Ulrich is available in 64 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Ulrich reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #894) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ulrich ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 64.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ulrich".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ulrich. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Ulrich is pronounced as UHL-rihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is UHL-rihch, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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