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Sula

#13,031 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sula has been given to 1,404 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #13,031 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Sula, 2025

1 in 474,000

Sula 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sula: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sula means

Sula is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sula is used in Rukai.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,404 girls were recorded with the name Sula between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1921; its best national rank was #610 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,979 in 2020 to #13,031 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,771 in 2015 to #13,031 in 2025.

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 Sula?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,031
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sula 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sula. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sulas were born

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

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
200
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1910s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Sula 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
−3,547
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,052
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,260
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.6%
Peak was 1921 (34)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#610
1888

Spellings of Sula

Sula is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 27.8% against Sula's 0.03%.

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 Sula is used

Across 1910–2025, Sula was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 354,686 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3Arkansas1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Kentucky1 in —
  6. 6Mississippi1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Sula has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sula around the world

Where Sula ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    2003–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1970–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sula by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,031
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,052
Best rank ever
#610
1888
Peak year
1921
34 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,404
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Sula

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

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Sibling names for Sula

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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