Ursula
Ursula is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 447th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1967400 births
- Best rank
- #447in 1901
- Since 1881
- 14,782people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,782 girls have been named Ursula in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 400 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 19%. It has spent 97 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ursula | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 121 | |
| 1890s | 279 | |
| 1900s | 460 | |
| 1910s | 1,141 | |
| 1920s | 1,441 | |
| 1930s | 1,126 | |
| 1940s | 785 | |
| 1950s | 1,087 | |
| 1960s | 2,810 | |
| 1970s | 2,740 | |
| 1980s | 1,398 | |
| 1990s | 591 | |
| 2000s | 357 | |
| 2010s | 295 | |
| 2020s | 151 |
In 1967, its biggest year
Ursula was the 474th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1967 were Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle, Mary and Susan. See all of 1967.
Names that rose and fell with Ursula
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Felicitapeak 1964
- Bertinapeak 1971
- Elbapeak 1956
- Jennettepeak 1981
- Mignonpeak 1979
- Lorinapeak 1986
- Alethiapeak 1973
- Lorapeak 1963
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.