Beulah
Beulah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 72nd, in 1903–1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19162,401 births
- Best rank
- #72first in 1903
- Since 1880
- 73,232people given the name
The story in the numbers
73,232 girls have been named Beulah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 2,401 births — 0.23% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 2,401 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 26%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Beulah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,866 | |
| 1890s | 6,785 | |
| 1900s | 9,716 | |
| 1910s | 18,874 | |
| 1920s | 18,626 | |
| 1930s | 8,669 | |
| 1940s | 4,408 | |
| 1950s | 1,780 | |
| 1960s | 671 | |
| 1970s | 286 | |
| 1980s | 169 | |
| 1990s | 84 | |
| 2000s | 79 | |
| 2010s | 135 | |
| 2020s | 84 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Beulah was the 97th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Beulah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Omapeak 1916
- Eulahpeak 1915
- Exiepeak 1921
- Vestapeak 1918
- Madgepeak 1920
- Verdiepeak 1918
- Maudiepeak 1918
- Ociepeak 1916
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.