Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Beulah

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Beulah
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 98.9% from peak

Peak era

1916

Peak rank proxy

2,401

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19162024

Peak year

1916

Decline from peak

98.9%

2024

All-time

73,232

Beulah once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1916, when 2,401 girls were named Beulah.

In 2024, only 26 girls were given the name.

Down 98.9% from its peak.

All told, about 73,232 Americans have been named Beulah and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 98.9% from peak

19162,401 girls named Beulah

202426 girls named Beulah

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