Ulysses is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Ulysses is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1028 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,027 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 13,100 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ulysses. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Ulysses annualy. This means that there have been boys named Ulysses who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Ulysses have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Ulysses even more than any other time: in 1895, it holds its present record at rank #252 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ulysses was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Ulysses has never been ranked higher than #252. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,030 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 191 boys named Ulysses were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Ulysses were born, there have been 151 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter U is very rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter X is even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With seven letters, the name Ulysses has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 0.4% of all boys' names starting with U, all other letters occur on average more than nine times as often. Moreover, of the comparatively few boys' names that start with U, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Uriel.
If your name is Ulysses and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ulysses, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Lion
Yoyo
Sun
Sun
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ulysses
Ulysses
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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L
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S
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E
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ulysses sounds like this:
