Urszula
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/urʂula/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urszula is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 213(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 74K
- USUnited States1 in 174K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 213 (inferred from the name graph)
180,127 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urszula 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #78 | 180,127 | 1 in 213 | 180K | Urszula | 167 |
| US United States | — | 1,917 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Urszula | 212 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Urszula | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 74K | listed | Urszula | 93 |
| SE Sweden | — | 613 | 1 in 17K | 613 | Urszula | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 267 | 1 in 20K | 744 | Urszula | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 159 | 1 in 37K | 159 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 81 | 1 in 4.3K | 81 | — | — |
180,127 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Franciszka Urszula Wiśniowieckab. 1705UAPolish-Lithuanian noble
- Ursula Ledóchowskab. 1865ATnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic missionary and saint (1865–1939)
- Urszula Dudziakb. 1943PLPolish singer
- Janina Korowickab. 1954PLnot in their usual namePolish speed skater
- Elżbieta Zającównab. 1958PLnot in their usual namePolish actress (1958–2024)
- Urszula Kielanb. 1960PLathletics competitor
- Urszula Antoniakb. 1968PLPolish film director
- Agnieszka Urszula Dygantb. 1973PLPolish actress
- Urszula Grabowskab. 1976PLPolish actress
- Urszula Radwańskab. 1990PLPolish tennis player
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 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 180K | #41 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 180K | #41 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,792 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 744 | #1,963 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 613 | #2,396 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2019 | 604 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | 529 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2021 | 497 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 421 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 394 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 393 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 391 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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
- How do you pronounce Urszula?
- A machine transcription gives /urʂula/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Urszula a male or female name?
- Urszula is a female 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 Urszula?
- In the etymology graph, Ursula, Uschi and Ursel are forms of the same name in other languages; Ula is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Urszula have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 180 thousand people named Urszula, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urszula.
- Where is Urszula most common?
- Urszula is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 213 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Urszula?
- In Poland, the national register counted 180,127 people named Urszula in 2026, about 1 in 213 residents.
- How common is Urszula compared with other names?
- In Poland, Urszula is the 78th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Urszula?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urszulaThe 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, “Urszula” — the 78th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.