Bulah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bulah has been given to 3,027 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1919, with 115 recorded.
Babies named Bulah, 1963
1 in 565,000
Bulah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bulah?
Bulah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1963
- 1 in 565,000
- 7 of 3,958,455 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 275,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1963
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bulah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,971 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bulah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bulahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bulah was born before 1921 — so the typical Bulah is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 81
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (874).
Is Bulah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1919 (115)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Bulah
Bulah is not the most common spelling — Lula is, with 26.1% against Bulah's 0.93%.
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 Bulah is used
Across 1910–2025, Bulah was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 39,407 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 20,000
- 2Tennessee1 in 20,000
- 3Alabama1 in 25,000
- 4Arkansas1 in 25,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 7Georgia1 in 33,333
- 8South Carolina1 in 33,333
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. Bulah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bulah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bulah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Bulah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bulah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Bulah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.