Ursula

Name of a fourth century saint, Latin Ursula, from ursa (“female bear”) and -ula (diminutive suffix), meaning "little she-bear".

Ursula

1. A female given name.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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/, [ˈurs̠ulɑ]
• Hyphenation: 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.

From Latin Ursula in the Middle Ages.

Ursula

1. A female given name.

• Very popular in German speaking countries from the 1930s to the 1960s.

• Ursel
• Uschi

From Latin Ursula. First recorded in Sweden in 1477.

Ursula c (genitive Ursulas)

1. A female given name.

• Yrsa

Borrowed from Spanish Úrsula.

Ursula

1. A female given name