Fun Facts About the Name Buelah
- More than 1 thousand babies named Buelah: U.S. records list 1,363 babies given the name Buelah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Buelah Mean?
Buelah is a variant spelling of Beulah, a name taken from Hebrew. Its meaning is "married." The Hebrew form is be'ulah, the feminine passive participle of the verb ba'al, which means "to marry" or "to take as a husband" and also carries the sense "to be lord or master over." The same root underlies the Hebrew noun ba'al, "lord" or "husband," which is also the title of the Canaanite deity Baal; the name Beulah itself, however, means "married" and is not a reference to that deity.
In the Hebrew Bible the word appears in Isaiah 62:4, where Zion is told she will no longer be called Forsaken but Beulah, "married," paired with the name Hephzibah, "my delight is in her." The literal sense is "married"; the customary interpretation is figurative, describing a people restored to God as a bride to a husband. The spelling Buelah, which transposes the e and u, is one of several English respellings of the same name.
Buelah Name History & Origins
Beulah entered English through Bible translation, especially the passage in Isaiah 62:4, and was used in religious writing as a poetic name for the land or people of Israel. Its best-known literary appearance is in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), where the Land of Beulah is a peaceful country on the far side of the River of Death, just before the Celestial City. Bunyan drew the image from Isaiah rather than coining the word.
From that religious and literary background, Beulah became a given name in the English-speaking world, used for girls chiefly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Hymns reinforced the association, notably "Beulah Land" by Edgar Page Stites, published in 1875 with music by John R. Sweney, which used Beulah as an image of heaven. The form Buelah is a variant spelling of this same name, with the second and third letters reversed; it follows the same pronunciation and carries the same meaning.
How Popular is the Name Buelah?
Buelah recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1927. Its best rank was #729 in 1896.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | #5,865 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1964 | #6,082 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1958 | #6,191 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1955 | #5,922 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1954 | #4,314 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1953 | #4,276 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1952 | #5,640 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1951 | #5,491 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1950 | #4,792 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1949 | #3,923 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1948 | #3,926 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1947 | #3,471 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1946 | #3,049 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1945 | #2,616 | 12 | 0.0009% |
| 1944 | #3,729 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1943 | #2,572 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1942 | #1,812 | 22 | 0.0016% |
| 1941 | #2,278 | 14 | 0.0012% |
| 1940 | #2,440 | 12 | 0.0010% |
| 1939 | #1,747 | 20 | 0.0018% |
| 1938 | #2,465 | 12 | 0.0011% |
| 1937 | #2,209 | 14 | 0.0013% |
| 1936 | #1,697 | 20 | 0.0019% |
| 1935 | #1,486 | 25 | 0.0024% |
| 1934 | #1,521 | 24 | 0.0023% |
| 1933 | #1,515 | 24 | 0.0024% |
| 1932 | #1,455 | 27 | 0.0025% |
| 1931 | #1,426 | 27 | 0.0025% |
| 1930 | #1,276 | 35 | 0.0031% |
| 1929 | #1,896 | 19 | 0.0017% |
| 1928 | #1,315 | 34 | 0.0029% |
| 1927 | #1,001 | 58 | 0.0049% |
| 1926 | #1,033 | 52 | 0.0044% |
| 1925 | #1,178 | 43 | 0.0035% |
| 1924 | #1,246 | 41 | 0.0033% |
| 1923 | #1,271 | 38 | 0.0031% |
| 1922 | #1,312 | 36 | 0.0030% |
| 1921 | #1,035 | 53 | 0.0043% |
| 1920 | #1,031 | 52 | 0.0043% |
| 1919 | #955 | 55 | 0.0049% |
| 1918 | #1,075 | 46 | 0.0040% |
| 1917 | #1,343 | 30 | 0.0028% |
| 1916 | #997 | 48 | 0.0046% |
| 1915 | #1,261 | 31 | 0.0032% |
| 1914 | #1,123 | 29 | 0.0038% |
| 1913 | #1,020 | 28 | 0.0045% |
| 1912 | #1,222 | 19 | 0.0034% |
| 1911 | #1,311 | 13 | 0.0031% |
| 1910 | #878 | 24 | 0.0061% |
| 1909 | #871 | 22 | 0.0063% |
| 1908 | #1,011 | 16 | 0.0048% |
| 1907 | #1,042 | 14 | 0.0044% |
| 1906 | #1,430 | 8 | 0.0027% |
| 1905 | #876 | 18 | 0.0062% |
| 1904 | #1,271 | 9 | 0.0033% |
| 1903 | #981 | 13 | 0.0050% |
| 1902 | #1,078 | 11 | 0.0042% |
| 1901 | #923 | 13 | 0.0054% |
| 1900 | #1,058 | 13 | 0.0043% |
| 1899 | #1,290 | 7 | 0.0030% |
| 1898 | #1,739 | 5 | 0.0019% |
| 1897 | #1,279 | 7 | 0.0030% |
| 1896 | #729 | 19 | 0.0080% |
| 1895 | #1,060 | 10 | 0.0043% |
| 1894 | #1,514 | 5 | 0.0022% |
| 1893 | #1,190 | 7 | 0.0033% |
| 1891 | #1,356 | 5 | 0.0027% |
| 1890 | #1,015 | 8 | 0.0042% |
| 1889 | #1,309 | 5 | 0.0028% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Buelah Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You can go to great heights and equally great depths. You are emotional and fixed in your opinions. You are hospitable, sentimental, often psychic, sometimes moody. You are ruled by love and the lack of it and feel a need to be encouraged and appreciated. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
Dependable, very down-to-earth and well grounded, you are always looking for meaningful work, a career where you can take pride in your work and do the best job you are capable of. Your prime desire is to build protected and secure environment at home and at work. You can be very persuasive in achieving goals and gaining objectives. You can be very detailed and well-organized and possess great organizational skills. At times you may appear too stubborn and overly critical to others, but your practical approach to life and productivity makes you one of the most beneficent members of community.
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