Uldis

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds (Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII))

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Uldis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country: 5,980 people, counted by PMLP, which ranks it 77th. Uldis is also written Улдис in Cyrillic.

  • LVLatvia1 in 315(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 21K
  • SESweden1 in 222K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Uldis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (measured from records)

5,980 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
37 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Uldis in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
UldisLatin(measured from records)
УлдисUldis in Cyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Улдис in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Uldis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Uldis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia5,9801 in 3156KUldis15
US United States1291 in 2.6M127——
SE Sweden461 in 222K46——
RU Russia≈29 est.≈1 in 5M—Улдис37
PL Poland251 in 1.5M25——
IS Iceland171 in 21K17——
DK Denmark131 in 451K13——

5,980 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
193019401950Uldis Lieldidžs, b. 1933Uldis Pūcītis, b. 1937Uldis Bērziņš, b. 1944

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalSveiki Uldis,Hi Uldis, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Uldis?
In the etymology graph, Ulric is a form of the same name in other languages.
Is Uldis a male or female name?
Uldis is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV).
What does the name Uldis mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Which countries have the most people named Uldis?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Uldis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uldis. After it come United States, Sweden, Russia and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Uldis most common?
Uldis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 315 people carrying it.
How common is the name Uldis?
In Latvia, the national register counted 5,980 people named Uldis, about 1 in 315 residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Uldis” — ranked 77th in Latvia (PMLP). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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