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Julia vs Juluis

American parents have registered 477,993 Julias since 1880, against 893 Juluises. Julia is still ahead, with 2,172 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Julia against Juluis, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Julia Juluis

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

Julia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1925, when Julia had 4,067 and Juluis had 31.

Side by side

  Julia Juluis
Total US births 477,993893
Most in one year 8,84933
Babies in 2025 2,172under 5
Estimated living today 314,000240
Median age today 3153
Peak year 20011923
Best rank 27th girls1,256th boys
Rank in 2025 131stunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 476,250 / 1,7430 / 893

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 Juluises alive today are over 53; half the Julias are over 31. That is 22 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: Julia and Juluis.