Ulises
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish form of Ulysses (see main dictionary) (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/uˈli.ses/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Ulises is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.3K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ulises
- Spanish:/uˈli.ses/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Spanish form of Ulysses (see main dictionary).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ulises 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #246 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 523 | Ulises | 212 |
| AR Argentina | #407 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 433 | Ulises | 109 |
| US United States | — | 14,115 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Ulises | 346 |
| PE Peru | #526 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Ulises | 68 |
| CL Chile | #337 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 19 | Ulises | 84 |
| SV El Salvador | #173 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Ulises | 44 |
| PY Paraguay | #299 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Ulises | 34 |
| NI Nicaragua | #129 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Ulises | 29 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ulises is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Ulysses
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Latín Ulysses, del griego Odysseus; héroe de la Odisea, quizá ‘el que odia’ o ‘el rencoroso’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Spanish form of ULYSSES .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ulises Francisco Espaillatb. 1823DOPresident of the Dominicana Republica (1823-1878)
- Ulises Cruzb. 1974ECEcuadorian footballer and politician
- Ulises Dávilab. 1991MXMexican footballer
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)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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ulises?
- In Spanish /uˈli.ses/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Ulises mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish form of Ulysses (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Ulises a male or female name?
- Ulises is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab), Spain (INE) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Ulises?
- In the etymology graph, Ulysses, Ulisses and Ulysse are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Ulises?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Ulises in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulises. After it come Argentina, United States, Peru and Chile; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ulises?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,115 people named Ulises in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Ulises compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Ulises is the 246th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ulisesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ulises” — ranked 145th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.