Ural

Boys' name

Possibly island, boundary

Ural has been given to 407 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1927, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Ural, 1970

1 in 721,000

Ural over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ural: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly island, boundary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ural means

Ural may mean “island, boundary”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ural is used in Bashkir and Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 407 boys were recorded with the name Ural between 1896 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,095 in 1896.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Ural?

Ural had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970: 1 in 721,000; 5 of 3,606,302 births
Among boys only: 1 in 372,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1970: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 499,941 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ural 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 1970 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 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ural. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Urals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ural was born before 1931 — so the typical Ural is around 94 today.

Median birth year: 1931; About 94 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 27.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 95; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Ural 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: —; 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 1927 (21)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,095; 1896

Spellings of Ural

Ural is not the most common spelling — Ray is, with 31.5% against Ural's 0.06%.

Ray31.5%204,701
Raul13.5%88,040
Brad12.8%83,060
Ira8.5%55,410
Neal8.5%55,048
Uriel3.2%21,075
Al2.6%17,079
Hal2.6%16,784

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 Ural is used

Across 1910–2025, Ural was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,640,816 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 in —
2Texas1 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. Ural has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ural around the world

Where Ural 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.

France
1992–1992
#3,111
in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ural 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: #1,095; 1896
Peak year: 1927; 21 that year
First recorded: 1896
Last recorded: 1970
All-time count: 407
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ural

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

Jeral Eural Ura Geral Doral Deral Coral Derral Darral Uras Terral Jerral Oral Uraz Viral Admiral Loral Veral Tyral Daral Rural Dyral Niral Kentral

Sibling names for Ural

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva Edward George Paul

For a brother

Frances Jewel Napoleon Raymon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud

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