Urszula

given name · Polish · Latin script

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

Urszula is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 81st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 213◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 44K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 115K

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

≈184K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
193 ●

28K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 213 ◐

Poland

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Urszula is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#81180,127△15K rec.1 in 213180KUrszula159
US United States—1,9168.5K rec.1 in 174K1.9KUrszula193
GB United Kingdom—1,7961.2K rec.—listedUrszula83
FR France—1,261998 rec.——Urszula106
SE Sweden—613△91 rec.1 in 17K613Urszula20
IT Italy—292279 rec.—listedUrszula29
NO Norway—267△95 rec.1 in 20K744Urszula22
CZ Czechia#962246△20 rec.1 in 44K246Urszula28
CA Canada—237219 rec.——Urszula40
BE Belgium—231184 rec.——Urszula17
DK Denmark—159—1 in 37K159——
IS Iceland—129—1 in 2.7K129——

Roughly 180K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 213). 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●

  • Polish925K98%
  • English8.6K1%
  • German2.4K1%
  • French1.5K1%
  • Czech1.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish924,89598%
English8,6481%
German2,3971%
French1,4721%
Czech1,3611%

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◐

Urszula is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name111 records spelled Urszula16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Урсула, Ursula, Уршуля, Урсзула, Úrsula

38 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.

Over time●

05101520196019701980199018 · 1985

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Urszula in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1952–1994
Yearrecords
19524
19585
19597
19605
19615
19625
19636
19645
19704
19715
19726
19735
19756
19774
197910
198010
198110
198212
19837
19849
198518
198610
19877
198811
19914
19934
19944

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 27 years between 1952–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Franciszka Urszula Wiśniowiecka, b. 1705Ursula Ledóchowska, b. 1865Urszula Dudziak, b. 1943Janina Korowicka, b. 1954Elżbieta Zającówna, b. 1958Urszula Kielan, b. 1960Urszula Antoniak, b. 1968Agnieszka Urszula Dygant, b. 1973Urszula Grabowska, b. 1976Urszula Radwańska, b. 1990

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 38 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Urszula
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—180K#41
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026180K#41
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.9K#7,792
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—744#1,963
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—613#2,396
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015394—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017393—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018391—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016391—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013391—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014390—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019389—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 232 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Urszula?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Urszula (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Urszula have the most bearers?
We estimate about 180 thousand people bear Urszula in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled urszula.
Where is Urszula most common?
Urszula is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 213 people carrying it.
How common is Urszula compared with other names?
In Poland, Urszula is the 81st most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
Is Urszula a male or female name?
Urszula 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.
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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, “Urszula” — the 81st most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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