Urszula

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Urszula: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 12 years, it reached #273 in 1985, and it stood at #4,056 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
72years from first to last
#273highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Urszula's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#2410
2008	#4524
2009	#3031
2010	#3156
2011	#4049
2012	#3681
2013	#3160
2014	#2862
2015	#2945
2016	#3609
2017	#4063
2018	#2499
2019	#2286
2020	#3899
2021	#3519
2023	#4056

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 27 of the 43 years from 1952 to 1994.

In 2019: #871 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2286 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #435 among girls in Norway in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1994
Highest recorded position: #273 among girls in Norway, in 1985 (recorded 1952–1994).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4056 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Urszula appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 188 births with the name.

Urszula across 3 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.

Urszula'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	#435 (1952)	#273 (1985)	#660 (1994)	27 of 43	188 (1952–1994)	18 (1985)
England and Wales · Girls	#2410 (2007)	#2286 (2019)	#4056 (2023)	16 of 17	109 (2007–2023)	11 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#593 (2010)	#593 (2010)	#871 (2019)	7 of 10	28 (2010–2019)	6 (2010)

Urszula 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 Urszula in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	16	3 of 10	5
1960s	26	5 of 10	5
1970s	40	7 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	94	9 of 10	10
1990s	12	3 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Urszula 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 3 regions, from 1952 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #273 in Norway in 1985.

Urszula'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	#4056	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#660	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#674	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#674	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#412	11	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#548	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#423	10	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#273	18	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#451	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#509	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#358	12	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#389	10	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#400	10	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#402	10	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#628	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#529	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#561	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#539	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#550	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#620	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#496	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#442	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#478	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#460	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#454	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#370	7	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#437	5	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#435	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1952 and 2023, ranked in 43 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #273, first reached in 1985.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in Norway in 1985.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 58 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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Urte · #419, 15y
Urvi · #2278, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Steffan · #275, 48y
Anisa · #266, 40y
Vytautas · #266, 39y
Aline · #265, 40y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Rino · #272, 42y
Samir · #275, 65y
Reza · #276, 60y
Ilona · #277, 61y

Urszula was ranked #273 in Norway · Girls in 1985. 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.

Urszula 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 Urszula without appearing here.

Urszula moved ahead of

Kerry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #4684.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #5785.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Urszula

Francis Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3519 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1863.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #1939.
Meabh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #2233.
Noah Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2869 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #2615.

Moved the opposite way to Urszula

Alexandra Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 while Alexandra went from #400 to #131.
Andrea Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 while Andrea went from #401 to #20.
Anette Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 while Anette went from #218 to #50.
Anna Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 while Anna went from #62 to #17.

Moved the same way as Urszula

Annie Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 and Annie from #168 to #335.
Åse Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 and Åse from #31 to #185.
Astrid Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 and Astrid from #17 to #88.
Barbara Compare
Between 1952 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Urszula went from #435 to #660 and Barbara from #220 to #399.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 3 regions, from 1952 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #273 in Norway in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Urszula

Urszula at a glance

What stands out in Urszula's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Urszula across 3 official records

Urszula by decade in Norway · Girls

Urszula appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Urszula

Urszula and the names beside it

Urszula moved ahead of

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Urszula at a glance

What stands out in Urszula's record

Urszula across 3 official records

Urszula by decade in Norway · Girls

Urszula appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Urszula

Urszula and the names beside it

Urszula moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Urszula

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