girls:
25 births since 1921
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
18.3k births since 1880
#847 (82nd percentile)
overall:
18.4k births since 1880
#1895 (76th percentile)
The name Ulysses is the #1,895 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,357 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #847 (81.5% percentile) for all time with 18,332 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1921.
Ulysses has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls).
The name Ulysses has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ulysses reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 32.5% percentile (ranked #359) with 178 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 340 births per million (ranked 17.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ulysses ranks #747 for boys (18.0% percentile) with 92 births per million, which is 27.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ulysses reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #573) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ulysses".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Ulysses. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.8% confident that Ulysses is pronounced as yue-LIH-seez, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ue-LIH-seez, at 13.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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