Bulah
Recorded 1880–1963 · United States
Bulah was most popular in 1919, when 115 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,197 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,027 people named Bulah.
Bulah over time
How old is the name Bulah?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Bulah is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 78 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 1963.
How many people are named Bulah?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,027 American births named Bulah between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 317 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Bulah in 2025?
Bulah was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Bulah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Bulah is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,027 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Bulah?
Roughly 317 Americans named Bulah are alive today — 10% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 84 years old, and half are between 78 and 90. That is a narrow band: Bulah arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Bulah is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org