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Tuula

Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Tuula has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2011, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tuula, 2011

1 in 457,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tuula: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Danish

What Tuula means

Tuula is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tuula is used in Finnish and Greenlandic. Its origins include Danish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Tuula is pronounced /ˈtuːlɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Tuula between 2007 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2011; its best national rank was #13,263 in 2011.

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 Tuula?

Tuula had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 457,000
8 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,937 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tuula 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 2011 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 316,937 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tuula. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tuulas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tuula was born before 2011 — so the typical Tuula is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Tuula 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 2011 (8)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,263
2011

Spellings of Tuula

Tuula is not the most common spelling — Paula is, with 60.3% against Tuula's <0.01%.

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.

Tuula around the world

Where Tuula 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.

  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tuula 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
#13,263
2011
Peak year
2011
8 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tuula

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

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Sibling names for Tuula

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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