Given name & surname
Uli
“a noble ruler”
Uli is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a noble ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a noble ruler.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uli through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 5 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 girls is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 190 as a first name in 2020; 163 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.
Uli’s family of names
Uli has a related form in Ulrica. In German usage, Uli has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ulrica. Uli has a related form in Ulea.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Uli
- Uli HoeneßGerman football executive (born 1952)
- Uli StielikeGerman association football player and managerborn 1954
- Uli EdelGerman film directorborn 1947
- Uli I of MaliMansa of Mali
- Uli ForteItalian football coach (born 1974)
- Uli BayerschmidtGerman footballer (born 1967)
- Uli Aschenbornanimal painterborn 1947
- Uli MasloGerman footballer and managerborn 1938
- Uli Waaswriterborn 1949
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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