Ulisses
#5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,312since 1971
Ulisses over time
Rank among boys' names. Ulisses has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,035 | 68 |
| 2008 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #2,442 | 52 |
| 2006 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #2,701 | 40 |
| 2004 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #1,893 | 58 |
| 2000 | #1,799 | 60 |
| 1999 | #1,593 | 68 |
| 1998 | #2,235 | 40 |
| 1997 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #2,626 | 28 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #2,190 | 33 |
| 1990 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ulisses! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ulisses
- 296 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #5,608)
- 91 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,608)
- 1,726 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #5,608)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1999 at #1,593 (68 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,238 boys born in 1999 were named Ulisses (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.4% of all boys named Ulisses (504) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 20 | #4,907 (1971) | #5,413 |
| 1980s | 129 | #2,429 (1986) | #4,047 |
| 1990s | 326 | #1,593 (1999) | #2,516 |
| 2000s | 504 | #1,799 (2000) | #2,328 |
| 2010s | 234 | #2,579 (2010) | #4,708 |
| 2020s | 99 | #4,494 (2021) | #5,604 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ulisses in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 47,784 of them was named Ulisses, which outranked 80.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,199Wilbur41
- #2,199Willy41
- #2,199Zacharias41
- #2,235Ulisses40
- #2,235Akhil40
- #2,235Anirudh40
- #2,235Asad40
- #2,274Abdallah39
- #2,274Akil39
- #2,274Andrei39
Tied with 38 names at #2,235; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.