Bula
Bula is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 601st, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192043 births
- Best rank
- #601in 1889
- Since 1881
- 1,034people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,034 girls have been named Bula in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1920, its biggest year
Bula was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Bula
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ednapeak 1918
- Florencepeak 1918
- Agnespeak 1918
- Verniepeak 1916
- Eltapeak 1915
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Floypeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
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.