Ulysses
A boys’ name of Greek origin, meaning wrathful, angry; Latin form of Odysseus.
Ulysses by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Ulysses. In the US, 156 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 272 babies in 1999, making it a 1990s name.
Other names that come from Odysseus
Like Ulysses, each of these traces back to Odysseus: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ulysses. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Ulysses
Names that are said the same way as Ulysses, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Uliceswrathful; a form of Ulysses56 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Ulysses
Nobody has voted for Ulysses yet
Vote for Ulysses and put it up against all the other baby names
Vote for Ulysses