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Name meaning & stats

Ulysses

Ulysses. 13,354 US babies since 1940, peak 1999.

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What it means

No agreed meaning on record

In US birth records

Peak year: 1999

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13,354 US babies were named Ulysses between 1940 and 2025.

Careers

Not enough notable people named Ulysses (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.

Spelling family

The most common spelling: 45% of the family

  • Ulysses 45%
  • Ulises 40%
  • Ulices 5%
  • Ulisses 4%
  • Ulyses 3%
  • Ulysee 1%
  • Ulysess 1%
  • Ulysees 1%

Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.

Name twins (peaked around 1999)