Sula
Sula is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 610th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192134 births
- Best rank
- #610in 1888
- Since 1880
- 1,397people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,397 girls have been named Sula in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 34 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sula | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 108 | |
| 1890s | 160 | |
| 1900s | 175 | |
| 1910s | 251 | |
| 1920s | 223 | |
| 1930s | 151 | |
| 1940s | 136 | |
| 1950s | 39 | |
| 1960s | 22 | |
| 2000s | 19 | |
| 2010s | 67 | |
| 2020s | 46 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Sula was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Sula
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Oniepeak 1918
- Bertiepeak 1928
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Olliepeak 1919
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Berthapeak 1918
- Leliapeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.