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Julie vs Julieanna

American parents have registered 512,777 Julies since 1880, against 1,538 Julieannas. Julie is still ahead, with 308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Julie against Julieanna, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Julie Julieanna

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

Julie 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 2011, when Julie had 799 and Julieanna had 62.

Side by side

  Julie Julieanna
Total US births 512,7771,538
Most in one year 18,24871
Babies in 2025 30814
Estimated living today 452,0001,500
Median age today 5622
Peak year 19582006
Best rank 23rd girls2,555th girls
Rank in 2025 872nd7,491st
First recorded 18801956
Girls / boys 511,253 / 1,5241,538 / 0

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 Julies alive today are over 56; half the Julieannas are over 22. That is 34 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: Julie and Julieanna.