Eulalia

Where Eulalia comes from

Eulalia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 290
    Eulalia of Barcelona born
    early 4th-century Spanish saint
  2. 290
    Eulalia of Mérida born
    early 4th-century Spanish saint
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1893
    Peak, #364
    55 babies named Eulalia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #631.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Eulalia of Mérida · early 4th-century Spanish saint, 290–304
  • Eulalia of Barcelona · early 4th-century Spanish saint, 290–303
  • Eulalia Guzmán · Mexican archaeologist, 1890–1985
  • Eulalia Pérez Sedeño · Spanish philosopher and professor, born 1954
  • Eulalia Ramos · Venezuelan heroine, 1796–1817

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.