Name profile

Beulah

A name meaning "married".

PronunciationEnglish /ˈbju.lə/
Usage languagesBiblical, English
US rank (2025)#5,917

Meaning and history

Beulah means “married” in Hebrew and is used in the Old Testament for the land of Israel in Isaiah 62:4. As an English given name, it has been in use since the Protestant Reformation.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 9 births, rank #11,417
2007: 7 births, rank #13,924
2008: 7 births, rank #13,832
2009: 6 births, rank #15,242
2010: 5 births, rank #16,992
20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: 12 births, rank #9,109
2013: 14 births, rank #8,135
2014: 11 births, rank #9,517
2015: 14 births, rank #8,008
20162016: 16 births, rank #7,230
2017: 17 births, rank #6,808
2018: 17 births, rank #6,792
2019: 29 births, rank #4,653
2020: 11 births, rank #8,953
20212021: 17 births, rank #6,691
2022: 9 births, rank #10,383
2023: 21 births, rank #5,752
2024: 26 births, rank #5,021
20252025: 20 births, rank #5,917

Beulah moved from #892 to #978 for girls between 1958 and 1959. Its highest annual birth count came in 1916, with 2,401 births.