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Ulrich

#5,585 in 2025Boys' name

Heritage, homestead + ruler

Ulrich has been given to 500 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #5,585 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Ulrich, 2025

1 in 195,000

Ulrich over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulrich: meaning, origin, and history

Heritage, homestead + ruler

Old High German

What Ulrich means

Ulrich means “heritage, homestead + ruler”, associated with uodal and rihhi.

Origin, language, and formation

Ulrich is used in German. Its origins include Old High German.

Ulrich comes through Old High German Uodalrich.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ulric and wulf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 500 boys were recorded with the name Ulrich between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,522 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,956 in 2020 to #5,585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,725 in 2015 to #5,585 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 Ulrich?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,585
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulrich 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ulrich. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulrichs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulrich was born before 2000 — so the typical Ulrich is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
398
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Ulrich 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
+4,213
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+371
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+140
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (17)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,522
1959

Spellings of Ulrich

Ulrich is not the most common spelling — Uriah is, with 39.8% against Ulrich's 1.6%.

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.

Ulrich around the world

Where Ulrich 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
    2005–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1901–2025
    #2,320
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–1967
    #552
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ulrich by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 371
Best rank ever
#2,522
1959
Peak year
2025
17 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
500
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Ulrich

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

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Sibling names for Ulrich

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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