Girl Names Starting With U
The 2025 registration data puts Unique first among U names for girls, with 73 newborns. The deepest entry here sits at rank #17,092, with 5 recorded births.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #2,456 | Unique | 73 |
| #2,749 | Ulani | 63 |
| #3,025 | Uma | 55 |
| #3,245 | Una | 49 |
| #3,293 | Unknown | 48 |
| #4,538 | Unity | 31 |
| #4,657 | Uriah | 30 |
| #4,747 | Ursula | 29 |
| #6,306 | Urvi | 19 |
| #7,107 | Umaiza | 16 |
| #7,108 | Umi | 16 |
| #8,320 | Umrah | 13 |
| #8,321 | Urielle | 13 |
| #8,322 | Uriyah | 13 |
| #9,421 | Ulanni | 11 |
| #9,422 | Uriel | 11 |
| #9,423 | Uwase | 11 |
| #10,056 | Udy | 10 |
| #10,057 | Ursa | 10 |
| #10,846 | Umaira | 9 |
| #10,847 | Umay | 9 |
| #10,848 | Umme | 9 |
| #10,849 | Uriella | 9 |
| #11,851 | Ulla | 8 |
| #13,089 | Uliana | 7 |
| #14,796 | Ulyana | 6 |
| #17,087 | Uilani | 5 |
| #17,088 | Ula | 5 |
| #17,089 | Umai | 5 |
| #17,090 | Umaima | 5 |
| #17,091 | Umamah | 5 |
| #17,092 | Urwa | 5 |
Only 32 charted girl names began with U in the 2025 data — that is the whole honest list, not a truncated one. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin U girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.
How common is U as a first letter for girls in 2025?
No girl name beginning with U appears anywhere in the 2025 top 1,000, so the letter's share of top-1,000 births is 0.0% and it stands 26th of the 26 initials (letters tied at zero are ordered alphabetically). All 32 names in the table rank past #1,000: the best of them, Unique, is #2,456 with 73 births, and the last, Urwa, is #17,092 with 5. Those overall ranks are positions in the complete 2025 SSA file for girls; the committed top-1,000 subset holds none of them. This list is complete rather than capped: 32 spellings beginning with U were given to 5 or more girls in 2025, and Urwa closes it at 5 births, the smallest count the SSA publishes.
Between #2,456 (Unique, 73 births) and #17,092 (Urwa, 5), the 32 rows of the 2025 U table hold 608 births in all, a top-to-bottom count ratio of 14.6. The middle row, the 16th, is Uriel at #9,422 with 11 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 2,291 ranks, from Ulyana (#14,796) to Uilani (#17,087); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 14 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Umaiza (#7,107) and Umi (#7,108), at 16 births each. No name in the 2025 U table ranks inside the overall top 100; the nearest is Unique at #2,456, followed by Ulani at #2,749.
How a rank like #2,456 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.
U girl names across the decade snapshots
In none of the 7 snapshot years (1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015) did a girl name beginning with U reach the top 200. The committed decade files stop at rank 200, so they record nothing about U girl names below that depth in those years; the 2025 table above, with Unique at #2,456, is the only committed data for the letter.
| Snapshot | U names in top 200 | Leading U name | Rank | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s (1955) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1960s (1965) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1970s (1975) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1980s (1985) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990s (1995) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2000s (2005) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2010s (2015) | 0 | — | — | — |
With no U girl name inside any snapshot's top 200, the letter's share of top-200 births is 0.0% in each of the 7 snapshot years from 1955 to 2015. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds no U name and gives the letter 0.0%; its first U entry that year, Unique, sits at #2,456. To read those 7 U shares against the other 25 initials, for girls and for boys, see First-letter trends since 1955, where each snapshot column carries all 26 shares; the full index is on the data guides page.
Faded and new U girl names
The faded list for U is empty for a structural reason: with no U girl name in any snapshot's top 200, the decade files hold nothing that could have dropped out of the 2025 list.
No snapshot top 200 contains any of the 32 names in the 2025 table — not even Unique, the letter's best-ranked name at #2,456. That records only that none of the 32, Unique at #2,456 included, ranked inside the top 200 in 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015; the snapshot files stop at that rank, so any of them can have been registered below it in any of those years.
The shape of the 2025 U list
Short names (four letters or fewer) number 12 in the 2025 U table, medium ones (five to seven) 20, and long ones (eight or more) 0. Take each length class on its own and the 2025 U list shows no long spelling at all, 20 medium spellings from Unique at #2,456 to Umamah at #17,091, and 12 short spellings from Uma at #3,025 to Urwa at #17,092. By letter count, Uma is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (3 letters, #3,025) and Unknown the longest (7 letters, #3,293). "m" is the second letter of 10 of the 32 names in the 2025 U table, "r" of 9, and "l" of 6; 7 second letters are used in total.
Across the sexes, 6 of these 32 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' U list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Unique (#2,456 for girls, #2,792 for boys), Unknown (#3,293 for girls, #2,757 for boys), Uriah (#4,657 for girls, #650 for boys), Umi (#7,108 for girls, #13,745 for boys), Uriyah (#8,322 for girls, #5,829 for boys) and Uriel (#9,422 for girls, #446 for boys). One row, "Unknown", is an entry the SSA leaves in its unedited files rather than a name this site added; it is ranked and counted like every other row (#3,293, 48 births in 2025).
U girl names: questions the data answers
What is the most popular girl name starting with U in 2025?
Unique. The 2025 SSA data records 73 girls named Unique, which places it at #2,456 among all girl names that year.
How many girl names starting with U are in the 2025 top 1,000?
None. No girl name beginning with U ranks inside the 2025 top 1,000; the best-ranked U name, Unique, is #2,456 with 73 births.
Why does this page list 32 U girl names?
Because that is every U girl name the SSA published for 2025: only 32 spellings beginning with U were given to 5 or more girls, so the list is complete rather than capped at 50.
Which U girl name on this page has the lowest rank?
Urwa, at #17,092 with 5 births in 2025. A count of 5 is the smallest the SSA publishes; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are withheld entirely, which is why the U list ends at Urwa, its 32nd row, instead of reaching 50.
How many U girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?
None in either year. The decade snapshots stop at rank 200, so U girl names below that depth in 1955 or 2015 are not recorded here; the letter's best-ranked name in 2025, Unique, is #2,456.
Do any of these U girl names also appear on the boys' U list for 2025?
Yes, 6 of the 32: Unique (#2,456 for girls, #2,792 for boys), Unknown (#3,293 for girls, #2,757 for boys), Uriah (#4,657 for girls, #650 for boys), Umi (#7,108 for girls, #13,745 for boys), Uriyah (#8,322 for girls, #5,829 for boys) and Uriel (#9,422 for girls, #446 for boys). Those are per-sex ranks, so Unique's #2,456 for girls (73 births) and #2,792 for boys (46) are two separate SSA positions, not one.
Other letters
Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with U.
Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.