Ulysses

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Ulysses is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 152 births. Its best rank was 272nd, in 1895.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1520.01% of boys
Peak year: 1999272 births
Best rank: #272in 1895
Since 1880: 18,484people given the name

Babies named Ulysses, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

18,484 boys have been named Ulysses in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 272 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 2000s alone account for 10%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Ulysses
1880s	241
1890s	310
1900s	294
1910s	1,182
1920s	1,839
1930s	1,450
1940s	1,559
1950s	1,651
1960s	1,282
1970s	1,100
1980s	1,351
1990s	1,738
2000s	1,884
2010s	1,723
2020s	880

In 1999, its biggest year

Ulysses was the 642nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.

Names that rose and fell with Ulysses

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.