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Ulysse

Boys' name

Form of Ulysses

Ulysse has been given to 250 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1922, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ulysse, 2020

1 in 668,000

Ulysse over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulysse: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ulysses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ulysse means

Ulysse is a form of Ulysses.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ulysse is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /y.lis/ for Ulysse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ulysses.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 250 boys were recorded with the name Ulysse between 1908 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,360 in 1908.

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.

How common is Ulysse?

Ulysse had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulysse 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ulysse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulysses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulysse was born before 1927 — so the typical Ulysse is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
15
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1920s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Ulysse 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (15)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,360
1908

Spellings of Ulysse

Ulysse is not the most common spelling — Ulysses is, with 84.2% against Ulysse's 1.1%.

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 Ulysse is used

Across 1910–2025, Ulysse was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 28,588 across all states with data.

33 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333

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. Ulysse has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ulysse around the world

Where Ulysse 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
    2016–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #124
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ulysse by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,360
1908
Peak year
1922
15 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
250
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ulysse

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

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Sibling names for Ulysse

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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