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Ursa

#10,054 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Ursus

Ursa has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #10,054 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ursa, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ursa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ursus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ursa means

Ursa is a feminine form of Ursus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ursa → Ursus. The family’s meaning is “bear”, recorded in Latin with the source elements ursus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ursus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Ursa between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,406 in 1924.

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 Ursa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,054
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ursa 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 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ursa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ursas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ursa was born before 2022 — so the typical Ursa is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
60
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Choose a decade

2020s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Ursa 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
+3,310
Places climbed
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
66.7%
Peak was 2023 (15)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,406
1924

Spellings of Ursa

Ursa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 58.7% against Ursa'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.

Ursa around the world

Where Ursa 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ursa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,054
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,406
1924
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Ursa

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

IrsaDorsaErsaUrsalaMarsaUrslaUrselaUrselTirsaYrsaMirsaLarsaTiersaTersaThursaTearsaUrsuleUrsulineUrsullaVersaThearsaUrszulaKiersaThersa

Sibling names for Ursa

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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