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Ulrika

Girls' name

Heritage, homestead + ruler, through Ulrik

Ulrika has been given to 8 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1972, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ulrika, 1972

1 in 393,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulrika: meaning, origin, and history

Heritage, homestead + ruler, through Ulrik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ulrika means

Ulrika belongs to the name family reached through Ulrika → Ulrika → Ulrik → Ulrich. Its meaning is “heritage, homestead + ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ulrika is used in Estonian and Swedish.

Ulrika comes through Swedish Ulrika and German Ulrike.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ulrik, Ulrikke, Ulrike, Ulrika and Ulrich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Ulrika is pronounced /ɵl²riːka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8 girls were recorded with the name Ulrika between 1972 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1972; its best national rank was #6,531 in 1972.

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 Ulrika?

Ulrika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972
1 in 393,000
8 of 3,142,796 births
Among girls only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1972
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
272,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulrika 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 1972 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 272,304 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ulrika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulrikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulrika was born before 1972 — so the typical Ulrika is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Ulrika 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 1972 (8)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,531
1972

Spellings of Ulrika

Ulrika is not the most common spelling — Erika is, with 92.2% against Ulrika'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.

Ulrika around the world

Where Ulrika 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
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • France
    1976–1976
    #2,368
    in 1976
  • South Australia
    1955–1987
    #684
    in 1987

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

Ulrika 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
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Best rank ever
#6,531
1972
Peak year
1972
8 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ulrika

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

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Sibling names for Ulrika

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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