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Ulisses

#5,826 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ulysses

Ulisses has been given to 1,312 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,826 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Ulisses, 2025

1 in 207,000

Ulisses over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulisses: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ulysses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ulisses means

Ulisses is a form of Ulysses.

Origin, language, and formation

Ulisses is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ulysses.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Ulisses is pronounced /uˈli.sis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,312 boys were recorded with the name Ulisses between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,599 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,955 in 2020 to #5,826 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,974 in 2015 to #5,826 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.

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How common is Ulisses?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,826
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulisses sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ulisses. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulissess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulisses was born before 2003 — so the typical Ulisses is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,312
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (504).

Is Ulisses 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
+333
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+129
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,852
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.5%
Peak was 1999 (68)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,599
1999

Spellings of Ulisses

Ulisses is not the most common spelling — Ulysses is, with 53.4% against Ulisses's 3.8%.

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 Ulisses is used

Across 1910–2025, Ulisses was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 53,042 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ulisses has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ulisses by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,826
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 129
Best rank ever
#1,599
1999
Peak year
1999
68 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,312
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Ulisses

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

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Sibling names for Ulisses

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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