Ulla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ulla är ursprungligen en smekform till → Ulrika och även → Ursula
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/uɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ulla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 168K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 7K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 14K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ulla är ursprungligen en smekform till → Ulrika och även → Ursula. Namnet började användas som officiellt förnamn ungefär vid tiden när Bellman skrev om Ulla Winblad i Fredmans epistlar, dvs. 1700-talets senare del, men det blev ett modenamn först på 1920-talet. En känd namnbärare är komikern Ulla Skoog (f. 1951). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 4 juli.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ulla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #372 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Ulla | 35 |
| IN India | #925 | 7,872 | 1 in 168K | 7.9K | Ulla | 96 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Ulla | 21 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Ulla | 45 |
| AR Argentina | — | 845 | 1 in 54K | 845 | — | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ulla | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 344 | 1 in 16K | 2.1K | Ulla | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Ulla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Ula: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Pet form of utriKe.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In aa, new mother (up to the 40th day after giving birth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of ull
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to stick one's tongue out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mariano Gómez Ullab. 1877ESSpanish military personnel and physician (1877-1945)
- Jaime Quintanilla Ullab. 1919ESSpanish politician (1919-2002)
- Ülle Ullab. 1934EEEstonian actress and dancer (1934-2016)
- María José Ulla Madroñerob. 1945ESSpanish model (1945–2022)
- Ana Ullab. 1965ESSpanish astrophysicist and professor
- André Ullab. 1973NONorwegian association football player
- Alejandra Ulla Lorenzob. 1982ES1982--; Lorenzo, Alejandra Ulla
- Stine Hole Ullab. 1995NONorwegian musician, singer
- Marius Ullab. 2002NONorwegian association football player
- Mélodie Ullaactress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 7.9K | #1,133 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 845 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 344 | #4,356 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 20 | #605 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ulla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Ulla in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulla.
- How do you pronounce Ulla?
- A machine transcription gives /uɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Ulla mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ulla är ursprungligen en smekform till → Ulrika och även → Ursula.
- How common is the name Ulla?
- In India, the national register counted 7,872 people named Ulla, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Ulla compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ulla is the 372nd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Ulla” — the 372nd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.