Bulah

Girls' name · Early 20th-century

Living in the US: ~350 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 3,027 since 1880
Typical age: 84 years, median

Bulah popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–1963. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1919 is the peak year for Bulah, with 115 births. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. It reaches the top 1,000 in 52 years of the record.

The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 1963.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Bulah?

An estimated 350 living Americans are called Bulah. SSA has recorded 3,027 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Bulah?

The typical living Bulah is 84 years old. The 1940s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Bulah a early 20th-century name.

Your Bulah

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Names similar to Bulah

Bayley #4,460 in 2025

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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