Tula

Where Tula comes from

Tula 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. 1882
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #728
    19 babies named Tula — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1900
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,319.
  4. 1975
    Tula Lotay born
    English comic book artist
  5. 1977
    Tula Rodríguez born
    Peruvian TV personality
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Tula Lotay · English comic book artist, born 1975
  • Tula Rodríguez · Peruvian TV personality, born 1977
  • Tula Ben Ari · Israeli singer, born 1983
  • Tula Roy · Swiss film director, 1934–2025

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.