Uldis
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Uldis is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 315◐
- ISIceland1 in 21K
- SESweden1 in 222K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 34 ●
- 1 in 315 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
195 records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Улдис in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and Улдіс in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 5,980△ | 54 rec. | 1 in 315 | 6K | Uldis | 15 |
| RU Russia | 293 | 63 rec. | — | — | Улдис | 34 |
| US United States | 127△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 2.6M | 127 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | 70 | 70 rec. | — | — | Улдіс | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 46 | — | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 25 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 25 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 17 | — | 1 in 21K | 17 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 15 | 2 rec. | — | — | Улдис | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | — | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | 9 | 0 rec. | — | — | Улдис | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 1 rec. | — | 224 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 112 | — | — |
Roughly 6K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 315). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian11K76%
- English1.3K9%
- Spanish2422%
- Norwegian Bokmål2242%
- German2202%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 10,503 | 76% |
| English | 1,292 | 9% |
| Spanish | 242 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 224 | 2% |
| German | 220 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 17 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 24 |
| 2010 | 24 |
| 2011 | 28 |
| 2012 | 30 |
| 2013 | 31 |
| 2014 | 30 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2016 | 33 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 36 |
| 2020 | 36 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Uldis Mārtiņš Klaussb. 1929LVLatvian politician and economist (1929-2012)
- Uldis Lieldidžsb. 1933LVLatvian actor
- Uldis Pūcītisb. 1937LVLatvian actor and director (1937–2000)
- Uldis Vazdiksb. 1941LVLatvian actor (1941–2006)
- Uldis Dumpisb. 1943LVSoviet and Latvian actor
- Uldis Bērziņšb. 1944LVLatvian poet and translator (1944–2021)
- Uldis Osisb. 1948LVLatvian politician and economist (born 1948)
- Uldis Sesksb. 1962LVLatvian rally driver and businessman
- Uldis Augulisb. 1972LVLatvian politician (born 1972)
- Uldis CekulisLVLatvian film producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.9K | #77 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 224 | #4,418 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 127 | #48,840 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 112 | #4,888 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #14,483 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 31 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Uldis?
- We estimate roughly 6.2 thousand people bear Uldis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Uldis have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.0 thousand people bear Uldis in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled uldis.
- Where is Uldis most common?
- Uldis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 315 people carrying it.
- Is Uldis a male or female name?
- Uldis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Uldis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Uldis”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.