# Beulah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/beulah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “married (woman)” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbjuːlə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 73,465 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 213 / 73,252 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 149, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

A biblical name applied to the land of Israel in Isaiah 62:4, from Biblical Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bəʿûlâ, “married (woman)”), taken up as a given name by Puritans and used figuratively for the New Earth.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 17,439 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,200 |
| 2013 | 14 | 8,205 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,638 |
| 2015 | 14 | 8,075 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,309 |
| 2017 | 17 | 6,856 |
| 2018 | 17 | 6,847 |
| 2019 | 29 | 4,671 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,050 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,736 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,529 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,786 |
| 2024 | 26 | 5,040 |
| 2025 | 20 | 5,949 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 9 | 3,003 |
| 1922 | 8 | 3,284 |
| 1923 | 9 | 2,966 |
| 1924 | 5 | 4,417 |
| 1925 | 8 | 3,180 |
| 1927 | 7 | 3,487 |
| 1928 | 7 | 3,392 |
| 1930 | 6 | 3,630 |
| 1931 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 1933 | 5 | 3,701 |
| 1935 | 6 | 3,297 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,595 |
| 1937 | 5 | 3,576 |
| 1938 | 5 | 3,571 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | 2,535 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,464 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,541 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,411 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

## People named Beulah

- Beulah Bondi, American actress (1888/1889–1981)
- Beulah Louise Henry, American business woman and inventor (1887-1973)
- Beulah Marie Dix, American screenwriter, children's book author (1876-1970)
- Beulah Quo, Chinese-American actress and activist
- Beulah Annan, American suspected murderer (1899–1928)
- Helen Thompson Gaige, American herpetologist (1890–1976)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.