Ulises
Ulises is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 524th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,038th. About 12,000 Uliseses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ulises boys named Ulises
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,959
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 524th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,038th
- First recorded
- 1954
- Girls / boys
- 15 / 11,944
How old the living Uliseses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,959 babies given the name since 1954, about 12,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,100 of them are children and 13 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ulisess
- Ulises Cruz (born 1974)Ecuadorian footballer and politician
- Ulises Heureaux (1845–1899)President of the Dominican Republic
- Ulises Dávila (born 1991)Mexican footballer
- Ulises Poirier (1897–1977)Chilean footballer
- Ulises Saucedo (1896–1963)Bolivian footballer
- Ulises Segura (born 1993)Costa Rican footballer
People named Ulises with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ulises is most common
Across the country Ulises is recorded 3.06 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Uliseses are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Ulises peaked:
Ulises among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ulises | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ulises lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,911 men called Ulises were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Ulises | 228 | 0.428 | 258 |
| Palmas, Las | Ulises | 206 | 0.354 | 306 |
| Málaga | Ulises | 204 | 0.233 | 304 |
| Huelva | Ulises | 55 | 0.206 | 387 |
| Sevilla | Ulises | 183 | 0.190 | 322 |
| Granada | Ulises | 81 | 0.174 | 389 |
Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ulises against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.