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Giulia vs Giuliana

American parents have registered 12,081 Giulianas since 1880, against 3,783 Giulias. Giuliana is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giulia against Giuliana, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giulia Giuliana

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Giuliana for 44 years and Giulia for 23 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Giulia Giuliana
Total US births 3,78312,081
Most in one year 2391,073
Babies in 2025 203287
Estimated living today 3,70012,000
Median age today 1212
Peak year 20222012
Best rank 1,062nd girls296th girls
Rank in 2025 1,139th914th
First recorded 19571958
Girls / boys 3,783 / 012,081 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Giulia Giuliana
Italy 196,8183,591
France 21,0602,095
Switzerland 4,970426
Belgium 3,755192
England and Wales 1,03393
Ireland 1253
Scotland 393

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Giulia and Giuliana.