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Julen vs Juliana

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 344 Julens. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Julen against Juliana, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Julen Juliana

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

Juliana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Julen had 37 and Juliana had 1,364.

Side by side

  Julen Juliana
Total US births 34467,797
Most in one year 372,225
Babies in 2025 61,203
Estimated living today 34064,000
Median age today 618
Peak year 20222007
Best rank 3,216th boys162nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th256th
First recorded 19971881
Girls / boys 0 / 34467,748 / 49

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 Julianas alive today are over 18; half the Julens are over 6. That is 12 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Julen Juliana
France 6805,460
England and Wales 24609
Switzerland 46545
Poland 4226

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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Related comparisons

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