Bulah · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Bulah.

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Its story

Popularity since 1880

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 78 recorded years as a table

Bulah, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1880	55
1882	93
1883	89
1884	47
1885	105
1886	76
1887	96
1888	73
1889	95
1890	89
1891	102
1892	104
1893	122
1894	94
1895	90
1896	101
1897	77
1898	73
1899	112
1900	120
1901	138
1902	114
1903	111
1904	127
1905	178
1906	149
1907	122
1908	117
1909	121
1910	139
1911	112
1912	84
1913	82
1914	112
1915	58
1916	71
1917	76
1918	74
1919	102
1920	90
1921	72
1922	71
1923	68
1924	78
1925	78
1926	68
1927	65
1928	56
1929	85
1930	67
1931	43
1932	53
1933	46
1934	42
1935	46
1936	40
1937	39
1938	22
1939	36
1940	25
1941	23
1942	18
1943	21
1944	11
1945	19
1946	12
1947	8
1948	11
1949	9
1950	9
1951	8
1953	4
1954	5
1955	4
1956	3
1957	3
1960	2
1963	4

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Bulah isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1963: 7
Rank in 1963: #5,296
How rare: 1 in 275,358 girls
Since 1880: 3,027

Bulah was last recorded in 1963. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1905, at 178 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Bulah doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.