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Juliana vs Julious

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 1,756 Juliouses. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Juliana Julious

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 146 years in which either name was published, Juliana for 138 years and Julious for 8 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Juliana Julious
Total US births 67,7971,756
Most in one year 2,22539
Babies in 2025 1,2035
Estimated living today 64,000730
Median age today 1837
Peak year 20071930
Best rank 162nd girls1,116th boys
Rank in 2025 256th12,008th
First recorded 18811880
Girls / boys 67,748 / 490 / 1,756

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 Juliouses alive today are over 37; half the Julianas are over 18. That is 19 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: Juliana and Julious.