Given name & surname
Beulah
“married”·“woman who is claimed as a wife”
Beulah is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “married” and “woman who is claimed as a wife” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Original Hebrewבעולה
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “married” and “woman who is claimed as a wife” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bəʿûlâ, “married (woman)”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
The name appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Beulah appears in Isaiah 62:4.
From biblical name research
Beulah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 73,465
- 213 boys · 73,252 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 2,408 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #5,949 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +3%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,949 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 3.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 2,401 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,271 as a first name in 2020; 232 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beulah’s family of names
Beulah has a related form in Bulah. Beulah has a related form in Beula. Beulah has a related form in Bula.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 17
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Beulah
- Beulah BondiAmerican actress (1888/1889–1981)
- Beulah Louise HenryAmerican business woman and inventor (1887-1973)
- Beulah Marie DixAmerican screenwriter, children's book author (1876-1970)
- Beulah QuoChinese-American actress and activist1923–2002
- Beulah PoynterAmerican actor, writer and playwright1883–1960
- Beulah Ream AllenAmerican nurse, physician and POW1897–1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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