Ulla

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ulla: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ulla: Recorded since 1945, it reached #166 in 1959, and it stood at #386 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
64times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#166highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2006	#5061
2021	#4634
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 60 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2023: #300 among girls in Norway, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #217 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #166 among girls in Norway, in 1959 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #386 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Ulla appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 60 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 687 births with the name.

Ulla across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ulla's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#217 (1945)	#166 (1959)	#386 (2025)	60 of 81	687 (1945–2025)	27 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#3900 (1999)	#5687 (2023)	4 of 25	13 (1999–2023)	4 (2021)

Ulla by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ulla in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	92	5 of 10	18
1950sbusiest	210	10 of 10	21
1960s	140	10 of 10	14
1970s	62	8 of 10	8
1980s	36	7 of 10	5
2000s	29	4 of 10	7
2010s	66	10 of 10	7
2020s	52	6 of 10	9

Across Norway · Girls, the 1950s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ulla appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #166 in Norway in 1959.

Ulla's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#386	8	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#351	10	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#300	13	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#386	8	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#383	8	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#466	5	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#459	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#502	5	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#413	9	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#468	7	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#426	9	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#579	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#556	5	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#556	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#433	9	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#508	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#421	10	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#578	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#538	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#444	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#646	5	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#696	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#682	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#538	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#626	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#563	6	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#604	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#603	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#492	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#527	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#528	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#385	10	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#357	11	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#394	9	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#425	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#298	13	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#409	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#280	13	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#326	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#220	19	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#315	11	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#195	22	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#202	19	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#312	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#242	14	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#166	24	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#220	16	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#189	20	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#177	23	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#201	19	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#182	22	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#174	25	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#197	21	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#194	20	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#202	20	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#249	13	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#267	11	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#188	23	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#169	27	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#217	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #166, first reached in 1959.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 54 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ulf · #79, 53y
Ulrik · #14, 56y
Ulrikke · #189, 42y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Marguerite · #161, 58y
Klaus · #175, 60y
Eivor · #181, 56y
Kristi · #185, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Eddie · #166, 55y
Gunnhild · #166, 61y
Mikal · #166, 69y
Torgunn · #166, 33y

Ulla was ranked #166 in Norway · Girls in 1959. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ulla and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ulla without appearing here.

Ulla moved ahead of

Sissel Compare
In 2022 they stood at #579 and #501 in Norway · Girls; by 2023 that had become #300 and #529.
Margaret Compare
In 2022 they stood at #466 and #455 in Norway · Girls; by 2023 that had become #300 and #522.
Trine Compare
In 2014 they stood at #579 and #578 in Norway · Girls; by 2015 that had become #426 and #569.
Reidun Compare
In 2014 they stood at #579 and #538 in Norway · Girls; by 2015 that had become #426 and #567.

Moved ahead of Ulla

Amalie Compare
In 1986 they stood at #538 and #586 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #682 and #383.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #433 and #499 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #556 and #272.
Jacqueline Compare
In 1986 they stood at #538 and #607 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #682 and #398.
Amelia Compare
In 2004 they stood at #646 and #652 in Norway · Girls; by 2005 that had become #444 and #184.

Moved the opposite way to Ulla

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 while Ella went from #137 to #4.

Moved the same way as Ulla

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ulla went from #217 to #386 and Aud from #13 to #427.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #166 in Norway in 1959. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ulla

Ulla at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ulla across 2 official records

Ulla by decade in Norway · Girls

Ulla appears in

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Ulla at a glance

Ulla across 2 official records

Ulla by decade in Norway · Girls

Ulla appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ulla

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Ulla moved ahead of

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