Girls' name · peaked in 1902
Eula name popularity since 1925
21,447 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Eula (99.3% girls, 0.7% boys). Half of them were born in 1935 or earlier, so the typical Eula is about 91 years old in 2026. Eula peaked in 1902 as the #123 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 21,447
- Named Eula, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1902
- #123 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #15,634 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 99.3% girls
- 21,292 girls · 155 boys
- Most popular in
- Mississippi
- 5.41× its national share
Peak year is the year Eula made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Eula births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Eula peaked earlier, in 1902.
- Steepest fall: Between 1954 and 1959, Eula's share of baby girls fell by 49%, from 1 in 7,740 to 1 in 15,100.
Shaded on the chart. This compares Eula's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Eula.
Decade by decade
Babies named Eula in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 5,682 | 55 | – |
| 1930s | 7,523 | 78 | #236 |
| 1940s | 4,381 | 15 | #358 |
| 1950s | 2,194 | 7 | #637 |
| 1960s | 845 | 0 | #1,219 |
| 1970s | 301 | 0 | #3,312 |
| 1980s | 139 | 0 | #6,164 |
| 1990s | 60 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 2000s | 32 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 2010s | 71 | 0 | #15,093 |
| 2020–25 | 64 | 0 | #15,634 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
58.9% of babies named Eula from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:
Where Eula is most popular
The index compares Eula's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Eula.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5.41× | 1,278 |
| Alabama | 4.96× | 1,713 |
| Louisiana | 4.80× | 1,681 |
| Arkansas | 4.54× | 910 |
| South Carolina | 3.87× | 1,057 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Eula's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Eula.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Eula (1902).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data