Ulisses as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ulisses

What is the meaning of the name Ulisses ?

The baby name Ulisses is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced oo-LEE-sees.

Ulisses is Greek, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish in Origin.

Ulisses is the Portuguese form, also used in Spanish contexts, of Latin Ulysses, the Roman adaptation of Greek Ὀδυσσεύς, Homer’s name for the king of Ithaca. That Greek form is the earliest secure literary shape, in the Iliad and Odyssey. Its etymology is disputed: ancient commentators linked it with ὀδύσσομαι, to be angry or hate, and Homer plays on suffering, but modern scholarship treats this as uncertain. The cautious literal gloss is wrathful or hated.

Iberian use reflects medieval and Renaissance transmission of classical learning, with Portuguese Ulisses beside Spanish Ulises. Its associations are chiefly literary rather than devotional: Odysseus was reshaped by Virgil, Dante, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. Portuguese and Brazilian examples include politician Ulisses Guimarães and church leader Ulisses Soares. In U.S. records the name is rare and male, rising in the late twentieth century and peaking around 1999 among largely Hispanic bearers.