Ulrich
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Germanic ūdal 'heritage' + rīhhi 'powerful'; source of uzen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʊlʁɪç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ulrich is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 388(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.1K
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Germanic ūdal 'heritage' + rīhhi 'powerful'; source of uzen
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ulrich counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #74 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 388 | — | Ulrich | 272 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #751 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Ulrich | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | #154 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Ulrich | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | #90 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 3.8K | Ulrich | 116 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 2.7K | — | 6 |
| AT Austria | #384 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 618 | Ulrich | 107 |
| US United States | — | 1,270 | 1 in 262K | 17K | Ulrich | 408 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ulrich is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Germanic *uodal- 'heritage' + *rīk- 'power'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, From the personal name Ulrich; plate shows vowel/length variation in spellings (U/V, short/long vowels, umlaut-like forms).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, a male given name from Old High German Uodalrich, popular in Germany since the Middle Ages, feminine equivalent Ulrike, equivalent to English Ulric, Danish Ulrik, Norwegian Ulrik, or Swedish Ulrik
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronym zu ahd. uodal/als. odal „Erbgut, Besitz“ + ahd. rihhi/als. rīki „Herrschaft; mächtig“; lange/ungelehnte Stammvokal-Schreibung, 10238 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Ulrich/Uodalrich; die Karte zeigt Kürzung und Vokalvariation in den Schreibungen Ulrich, Ullrich, Ullerich, Ulreich.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Huldrych Zwinglib. 1484CHnot in their usual nameProtestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorffb. 1848DEGerman classical philologist (1848-1931)
- Joachim von Ribbentropb. 1893DEnot in their usual nameGerman Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
- Peter Weissb. 1916DEnot in their usual nameSwedish-German playwright and author (1916–1982)
- Ulrich Beckb. 1944DEGerman sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)
- Eckhart Tolleb. 1948DEnot in their usual nameGerman spiritual teacher and author
- Uli Hoeneßb. 1952DEnot in their usual nameGerman football executive (born 1952)
- Ulrich Müheb. 1953DEGerman actor (1953–2007)
- Ulrich Tukurb. 1957DEGerman actor and musician
- Ulrich Thomsenb. 1963DKDanish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.7K | #3,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,479 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 618 | #490 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #10,479 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 9 | #532 |
Reference works 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ulrich mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic ūdal 'heritage' + rīhhi 'powerful'; source of uzen Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Ulrich?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊlʁɪç/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Ulrich have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 207 thousand people named Ulrich in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulrich.
- Is Ulrich a male or female name?
- Ulrich is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ulrich?
- In the etymology graph, Ulrik, Ulric and Oldrich are forms of the same name in other languages; Ueli is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Ulrich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,270 people named Ulrich in 2020, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Ulrich compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ulrich is the 74th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ulrichThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ulrich” — the 74th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.