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Bula

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bula has been given to 1,034 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Bula, 1950

1 in 700,000

Bula over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bula: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bula means

Bula is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bula is used in Old Czech and Sandawe.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Bula is pronounced /ˈbuɫa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,034 girls were recorded with the name Bula between 1881 and 1950. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1920; its best national rank was #601 in 1889.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bula?

Bula had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1950, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1950
1 in 700,000
5 of 3,502,380 births
Among girls only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1950
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
485,534 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bula sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1950 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 485,534 children born in 1950 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bula. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bulas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bula was born before 1920 — so the typical Bula is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (304).

Is Bula rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (43)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#601
1889

Spellings of Bula

Bula is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 20.2% against Bula's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bula is used

Across 1910–2025, Bula was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 328,364 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Kentucky1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bula has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bula by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#601
1889
Peak year
1920
43 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
1950
All-time count
1,034
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bula

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bula

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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