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Tulsa

Girl · TUL-suh · Native American

Tulsa is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “old town”. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

What does Tulsa mean?

Native American: the Oklahoma city, from a Muscogee (Creek) town name

“old town”

Say it
TUL-suh

Is Tulsa a girl's or a boy's name?

Tulsa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tulsa in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,324among girls
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 216% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Tulsa, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 38 girls. It first appears in the records in 1914.

2025 had fewer girls named Tulsa than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Tulsa in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

1914Busiest: 38 in 20232025
Tulsa in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202423#5,440
202338#3,909
202220#5,981
202123#5,394
20209#10,245
201910#9,730
20186#13,788
20177#12,709
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19956#11,778
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19915#13,139
19905#12,952
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19145#3,617

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