Zula
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 15 babies a year in the US.
Zula by the numbers
Zula was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 127 babies in 1922, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Zula
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Zula. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Zula
Names that are said the same way as Zula, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Zulai6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Zula
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