Meaning and history
Latin form of Odysseus. It was borne by Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), the Union commander in the American Civil War who later became president of the United States, and was chosen by Irish author James Joyce as the title of his novel Ulysses (1922), which loosely parallels Homer’s Odyssey.
20062006: 178 births, rank #1,028
2007: 191 births, rank #1,012
2008: 191 births, rank #1,009
2009: 196 births, rank #1,004
2010: 183 births, rank #1,053
20112011: 179 births, rank #1,054
2012: 167 births, rank #1,109
2013: 165 births, rank #1,110
2014: 173 births, rank #1,102
2015: 181 births, rank #1,082
20162016: 144 births, rank #1,266
2017: 157 births, rank #1,186
2018: 170 births, rank #1,135
2019: 204 births, rank #1,018
2020: 188 births, rank #1,064
20212021: 180 births, rank #1,131
2022: 191 births, rank #1,113
2023: 170 births, rank #1,189
2024: 152 births, rank #1,290
20252025: 169 births, rank #1,196
Ulysses moved from #815 to #985 for boys between 2002 and 2005. Its highest annual birth count came in 1999, with 272 births.