Ulla

From Swedish Ulla. Diminutive form of Ulrikke.

Ulla

1. a female given name

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 25 468 females with the given name Ulla have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Swedish Ulla.

Ulla

1. a female given name

Ulla f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Ulla: Ulluson
• daughter of Ulla: Ulludóttir

From Swedish Ulla, from Ulrika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈulːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ulːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ul‧la

Ulla

1. a female given name
   • 1870 Aleksis Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers): Chapter 14 (Translation 1991 by Richard A. Impola):

     VAIMO. Etkö tunne enään minua? Olenhan minä Ulla, sinun vaimos.

     WIFE: Don't you know me any more? I'm Ulla, your wife.

   • 1922, Anni Swan, Pikkupappilassa, WSOY, published 1966, pages 138–139:

     Siinä seisoo Ulrik Schöring itse ilmi elävänä ratsastuspiiska kädessä ja katselee häntä viattomana kuin kapalovauva. Ulla kohosi istumaan ja loi petturiin niin musertavan katseen kuin ikinä saattoi.
     —Ulla, sinä et tervehtinyt serkkuasi, sanoo rikollinen ja kohtaa röyhkeästi tytön leimuavan katseen.
     Ei vastausta.
     —Mehän olemme kaimoja.

     There stood Ulrik Schöring himself alive and well with a riding whip in one hand, and staring upon her innocently like a swaddled baby. Ulla rose up to sit and cast upon the traitor as crushing of a gaze as she ever could.
     —Ulla, you didn't greet your cousin, the criminal says and imprudently meets the girl's fiery gaze.
     No response.
     —We share the same name.

• Ulla is the 38^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 16,739 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,358 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Ulha (reintegrationist)

Attested as Ulla in Classical Latin (Pomponius Mela) and as Ulia during the Middle Ages. From a substrate language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *u̥lHyeh₂, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”).

• IPA^(key):

Ulla m

1. A river in Galicia, Spain
   1. A village in Maceda parish, Palas de Rei, Lugo, Galicia
   2. A village in Berres parish, A Estrada, Pontevedra, Galicia
2. a toponymical surname

• Antas de Ulla
• Ponte Ulla
• Ribadulla
• ullao
• Ulloa

• Ulla on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

• “Ulla” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• “Ulla” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• Bascuas López, Edelmiro (1999). “Ulla, Veleia y otros derivados de la raíz indoeuropea wel- ‘hacer girar’”, in Veleia, 16, pp. 159-216.

• Ulia

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *u̥lH-yeh₂, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”).

Ulla m sg (genitive Ullae); first declension

1. A river of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis, still called this way

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Bascuas López, Edelmiro (1999). “Ulla, Veleia y otros derivados de la raíz indoeuropea wel- ‘hacer girar’”, in Veleia, 16, pp. 159-216.
• Ulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Ulla”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Short form of Ulrika. First recorded in Sweden in 1771. Later also used as a pet form of Ursula and Hulda.

• IPA^(key): /²ɵla/

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Ulla c (genitive Ullas)

1. a female given name
   • 1790, Carl Michael Bellman, Fredmans epistel n:o 71:

     Ulla, min Ulla, säj, får jag dig bjuda
     rödaste smultron i mjölk och vin

     Ulla, my Ulla, say may I offer you
     reddest strawberries in milk and wine

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 61 989 females with the given name Ulla living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.