Ulices
Masculine
Ulices is the Spanish Ulysses, and Ulysses is what happened to Odysseus on the way into Latin. The d turned into an l somewhere between Greek and Rome, and nobody has ever fully explained it.
How old is the name Ulices?
Ulices first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Ulices alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,600 people named Ulices are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ulices most popular?
Ulices peaked in 1999, reaching #1710 nationally. Today it ranks #2884, 1,174 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Odysseus to Ulices
The story of Ulices
Odysseus reached Rome early, probably through the Greek colonies of southern Italy and possibly through Etruscan, which is where the strange l is most often blamed. Latin wrote Ulixes and later Ulysses, and it is that form the Romance languages inherited: Spanish Ulises, Italian Ulisse, French Ulysse. Spanish-speaking families have used it steadily, and Ulices with a c is a common American spelling of the Spanish name. It reaches United States records almost entirely from Mexico and Central America.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Greek Odysseus has no settled derivation — the poem's own explanation, connecting it to a verb about anger and grudges, is generally read as a pun rather than an etymology. The Latin form adds a second puzzle: Odysseus became Oulixes and then Ulixes, with a consonant change that suggests the name came into Latin through a Greek dialect or through Etruscan rather than directly. Neither the meaning nor the route is established.
How the name formed
- Odysseus
- Ulixes
- Ulises
- Ulices
Related forms: Ulises · Ulysses · Ulisse · Odysseus
Pronouncing Ulices
oo-LEE-ses
Three syllables with the stress in the middle, following Spanish. English speakers say yoo-LISS-eez, giving the first vowel an English long u — which is the Ulysses saying rather than the Spanish one.
Nicknames for Ulices
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 201872 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1710reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −6.5%43 in 2025, from 46
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ulices in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ulises in Spanish — spelling variant
- Ulysses in English — same name
- Ulisse in Italian — same name
- Odysseus in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Colorado.
Ulicess among us
people named Ulices are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 39,723 born in 2025 was named Ulices
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ulices
- #2884
- Ulices on the 2025 chart
- #673
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ulices went to 43 boys in 2025, but Ulises and Ulyses are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 264, which makes it the 673rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,211 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 6,470 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,723 for Ulices itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Guerino test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ulices's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Guerino climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Guerino's path sketches the road Ulices is walking now.
Ulices sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ulices is headed
Ulices should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ulices beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ulices in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One of the best-documented names in Western literature, with a whole poem behind it.
- Uli is a natural short form already in wide Spanish use.
- Three syllables that read correctly in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese alike.
- Ulises is the standard Spanish spelling and this one will be corrected in writing.
- The Spanish and English pronunciations are very different, so the child will hear both.
- Its meaning is genuinely unknown, and the ancient explanation offered is about resentment.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ulicess are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Ulices are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ulices?
- Ulices is one of 3 recorded spellings. Ulises is the more common one — 213 births in 2025 against 43 for Ulices.
- How popular is the name Ulices in 2025?
- Ulices ranks #2884 among US boy names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ulices?
- About 1 in every 39,723 US boys born in 2025 was named Ulices — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ulices with classmates?
- Ulices will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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