Ursula

From Latin Ursula, name of a fourth century saint.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɜː(ɹ).sjʊ.lə/, /ˈɜː(ɹ).ʃʊ.lə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɝ.sə.lə/

Ursula

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
     :Scene I:

     Whisper her ear, and tell her, I and Ursula / Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse / Is all of her;

   • 1857 Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, Chapter III:

     "Is her name Ursula?" And I called to mind the little girl who had tried to give some bread to the hungry John Halifax, and whose cry of pain we heard as the door shut upon her. Poor little lady! how sorry I was.

• Ursulian
• Ursuline

From Latin Ursula.

Ursula

1. a female given name

From Latin Ursula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈursulɑ/, [ˈurs̠ulɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ursulɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ur‧su‧la

Ursula

1. a female given name
   • 1961, Maria Partanen., Valkeat talot, WSOY, page 84:

     Ja kaikki tekivät ehdotuksia. Minäkin olisin halunnut oikein kauniin nimen vauvalle mutta en saanut sitä sanotuksi, kukaan ei kysynyt minulta. Ja äiti sanoi:
     —Pannaankos Ursula Genoveva.
     Kaikki nauroivat mutta minun sydämessä tuntui ihan tuska. Hädissäni minä juoksin makuukamariin äidin sängyn alle ja rukoilin: hyvä Jumala elä anna niiden antaa vauvalle sellasta nimmee. Minä ihan itkin: Ursula Genoveva. Se oli kauhea, se oli ihan julma hyi se oli inhottava nimi.

     And everybody suggested names. I would've liked the baby to get a beautiful name too, but I didn't get to say it, as nobody asked me. The mother said::
     —Should we go with Ursula Genoveva.
     Everyone laughed, but my heart was filled with anguish. I ran alarmed to the bedroom under mother's bed and prayed: dear God, don't let them give a name like that to the baby. I was weeping: Ursula Genoveva. It was terrible, so cruel, such a disgusting name.

• Ursula is the 771^st (tied with 3 other names) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 274 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,164 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• luraus

Learned borrowing from Latin Ursula. Compare the popular form Ursel, from Middle High German Ursele.

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Ursula f (proper noun, genitive Ursulas or (with an article) Ursula)

1. a female given name, very popular in German speaking countries from the 1930s to the 1960s

• Ursel
• Uschi

From ursa (“she-bear”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.su.la/, [ˈʊrs̠ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.su.la/, [ˈursulä]

Ursula f sg (genitive Ursulae); first declension

1. a female given name

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Ursula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Ursula”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

From Latin Ursula. First recorded in Sweden in 1477.

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Ursula c (genitive Ursulas)

1. a female given name

• Yrsa

Borrowed from Spanish Úrsula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuɾsula/, [ˈʔuɾ.sʊ.lɐ]
• Hyphenation: Ur‧su‧la

Úrsulá (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜇ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

1. a female given name from Spanish