Ulla

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ulla is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ulla är ursprungligen en smekform till → Ulrika och även → Ursula.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 55K◐
  • SESweden1 in 233
  • FIFinland1 in 307

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈79K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
90 ●

69K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 233 ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Ulla är ursprungligen en smekform till → Ulrika och även → Ursula. Namnet började användas som officiellt förnamn ungefär vid tiden när Bellman skrev om Ulla Winblad i Fredmans epistlar, dvs. 1700-talets senare del, men det blev ett modenamn först på 1920-talet. En känd namnbärare är komikern Ulla Skoog (f. 1951). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 4 juli.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ulla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India59,41467K rec.—7.9KUlla90
SE Sweden43,817△37 rec.1 in 23344KUlla16
FI Finland18,156△52 rec.1 in 30726KUlla9
DK Denmark15,238—1 in 38515K——
US United States768△307 rec.1 in 433K768Ulla39
NO Norway721△1 rec.1 in 7.6K2.1K—5
LV Latvia1990 rec.1 in 9.5K200—2
ID Indonesia154104 rec.——Ulla42
BD Bangladesh113624 rec.——Ulla33
ES Spain50△23 rec.1 in 1M332Ulla4
BR Brazil42—1 in 5M44——
SI Slovenia37—1 in 57K38——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish103K34%
  • Danish66K21%
  • Hindi46K15%
  • German23K8%
  • English14K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish103,33734%
Danish65,67421%
Hindi45,50215%
German23,4738%
English13,9765%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ulla is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name108K records spelled Ulla5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ülla, Üllà

  • Danish given name83K records spelled Ulla6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Ülla

  • German given name49K records spelled Ulla14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, India, Sweden

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Uella, Üllä, Ülla, Üllâ, Uellae

  • Arabic given name5.6K records spelled Ulla10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United States, Sweden

    Also written Ülla, Üllä, Ùllà, Úlla, Ůlla

  • Sinhala given name5.3K records spelled Ulla2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

  • French given name1.8K records spelled Ulla3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ullà

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ulla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Ula: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Pet form of utriKe.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In aa, new mother (up to the 40th day after giving birth)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of ull

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, to stick one's tongue out

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030196019802000202027 · 1946

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Ulla in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
194518
194627
194723
194811
194913
195020
195120
195221
195325
195422
195519
195623
195720
195816
195924
196014
196110
196219
196322
196411
196519
196611
196713
19688
196913
19708
19719
197211
197310
19746
19756
19787
19795
19805
19826
19845
19867
19874
19884
19895
20058
20066
20075
200910
20107
20119
20125
20135
20144
20159
20167
20179
20185
20196
20205
20218
20228
202313
202410
20258

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 60 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Ulla Poulsen Skou, b. 1905Ulla Jacobsson, b. 1929Ulla Wiesner, b. 1940Ulla Lyttkens, b. 1942Ulla Bergryd, b. 1942Ulla Pia, b. 1945Ulla Hahn, b. 1945Ulla Skoog, b. 1951Ulla Kock am Brink, b. 1961Susanna Mälkki, b. 1969

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 68 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Ulla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—44K#90
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202031K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—26K#173
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—18K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15K#35
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—7.9K#1,133
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.1K#1,038
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—845—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020768#14,944
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025721—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—344#4,356
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—332#11,120

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 340 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ulla?
We estimate roughly 79 thousand people bear Ulla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Ulla have the most bearers?
Ulla is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ulla.
Where is Ulla most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ulla is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 233 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
Is Ulla a male or female name?
Ulla is a female 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 Ulla mean?
Recorded meaning: Ulla är ursprungligen en smekform till → Ulrika och även → Ursula.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Ulla”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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