Ulla

Ulla is a Scandinavian and German short form of Ursula, from Latin ursa, bear, and sometimes of Ulrika, from Germanic elements meaning heritage and ruler. In Swedish culture the name is tied to Ulla Winblad, the lively figure who appears throughout Carl Michael Bellman’s eighteenth-century song cycle Fredman’s Epistles. A modern bearer is the Swedish actress Ulla Jacobsson, who starred in Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night.