Given name & surname

Ubald

Ubald is a given name from Latin. It is used in Polish.

Original LatinUbaldus

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Ubald comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Ubaldus.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ubald through the years

Babies since 1880
5
5 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1918
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246192019401960198020002025Highest share 19180.0
Ubald in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1918–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Ubald’s family of names

In Polish usage, Ubald has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form UBALDO. In German usage, Ubald has a related form in Hugbald. In Polish usage, Ubald has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form UBALDUS.

Walk Ubald’s family in the name graph

UbaldHugbaldUbaldoUbaldusУбальд

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Ubald has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.

Latin

Latinwhere Ubald comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Ubald

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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