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“Variant of Odysseus” — Latin Ulysses/Ulixes, doublet of Odysseus origin
Boy's name · #1201 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Ulysses holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#1201 in 2025). About 19,000 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. Across the West it runs about twice its national rate. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, strongest in the West today. Together with its spelling variant Ulises (#1043), Ulysses would rank around #703 with about 380 births last year — the newborns split about 56/44 between Ulises and Ulysses.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 9 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 120 notable people named Ulysses:
Military figures appear 2.94× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ulysses G. McAlexander, United States Army general.
Similar names: Ulises · Gus · Laurence · Jules · Lucius · Hugh
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