MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ulyses mean?
Brenna Lorenz’s onomastic study explicitly places Ulyses in the Ulysses/Eulis cluster, with historical source occurrences rather than a guessed resemblance. Ulysses is the Latin form of Greek Odysseus, whose ultimate origin remains unresolved.
The traditional connection with a Greek hate verb is a proposal, not a settled definition of every Ulyses. American study examples do not establish a Philippine bearer’s ancestry.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Ulyses in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
ULYSESCSV record 12,156 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Ulyses in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Ulyses
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Ulysses♂Latin form in the Odysseus name tradition
- Kisses♀From English kisses, plural of kiss
- Moises♂Form of Moses; Egyptian origin and biblical wordplay differ
- Moses·Probably Egyptian “son”; biblically linked with drawing out
- Rameses·Egyptian name: he is born of Ra
- Uliran·Filipino word: an example worthy of imitation
- Ulpiano·From Latin Ulpianus; an academy account associates it with Ulpio
- Uldarico♂Spanish form corresponding to Ulrich
What rhymes with Ulyses?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Ulyses further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Behind the Name — Ulysses (opens in a new tab)
Latin form of Odysseus.
- Behind the Name — Odysseus (opens in a new tab)
Ultimate origin unresolved; traditional hate-verb proposal explicitly qualified.
- Brenna E. Lorenz — Origins of Unusual Given Names from the Southern United States, Names 37(3), 1989 (opens in a new tab)
Primary onomastic research, Table 3 printed page 217 explicitly Ulyses within Ulysses/Eulis cluster. Root etymology supplied separately; table’s US social categories not generalized to Philippine bearers.