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Buelah

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Buelah is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 729th, in 1896.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192758 births
Best rank
#729in 1896
Since 1889
1,363people given the name
Babies named Buelah, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,363 girls have been named Buelah in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 58 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 58 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Buelah
1880s5
1890s73
1900s137
1910s323
1920s426
1930s228
1940s117
1950s42
1960s12

In 1927, its biggest year

Buelah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.

Names that rose and fell with Buelah

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.