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Juliana vs July

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 1,133 Julys. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Juliana July

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 1976, when Juliana had 158 and July had 17.

Side by side

  Juliana July
Total US births 67,7971,133
Most in one year 2,22540
Babies in 2025 1,20331
Estimated living today 64,0001,100
Median age today 1818
Peak year 20072020
Best rank 162nd girls4,648th girls
Rank in 2025 256th6,546th
First recorded 18811962
Girls / boys 67,748 / 49854 / 279

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 Juliana July
France 5,460825
Belgium 2487

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: Juliana and July.