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Julee vs Julio

American parents have registered 64,197 Julios since 1880, against 2,788 Julees. Julio is still ahead, with 436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Julee against Julio, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Julee Julio

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

Julio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Julee had 92 and Julio had 307.

Side by side

  Julee Julio
Total US births 2,78864,197
Most in one year 1001,564
Babies in 2025 under 5436
Estimated living today 2,50057,000
Median age today 5430
Peak year 19701990
Best rank 1,154th girls194th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked641st
First recorded 19381888
Girls / boys 2,788 / 0422 / 63,775

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Julees alive today are over 54; half the Julios are over 30. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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