Given name
Uldis
Uldis is a masculine given name from Old High German. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uldis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 7 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1953
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1953. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 129 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Uldis’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Uldis has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ulric. In Latvian usage, Uldis has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form ULDARICO. In Latvian usage, Uldis has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form ULRICO.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Uldis
- Uldis BērziņšLatvian poet and translator (1944–2021)
- Uldis AugulisLatvian politician (born 1972)
- Uldis PūcītisLatvian actor and director (1937–2000)
- Uldis ĢērmanisLatvian historian, writer, and publicist (1915-1997)
- Uldis SesksLatvian rally driver and businessmanborn 1962
- Uldis PīlēnsLatvian politicianborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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