Urszula
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/urˈʂu.la/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Urszula is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 180,127 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 213(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 4.3K
- SESweden1 in 17K
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)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 213 (inferred from the name graph)
180,127 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Urszula
- Polish:/urˈʂu.la/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 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 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 101K | listed | Urszula | 93 |
| SE Sweden | — | 613 | 1 in 17K | 613 | Urszula | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 109K | listed | Urszula | 31 |
| 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); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; 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)- Janina Korowickab. 1954PLnot in their usual namePolish speed skater
- Urszula Antoniakb. 1968PLPolish film director
- 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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Urszula?
- In Polish /urˈʂu.la/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Urszula a male or female name?
- Urszula is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Urszula?
- 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. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Sweden and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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?
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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” — ranked 41st in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.