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Julie vs Juliett

American parents have registered 512,777 Julies since 1880, against 977 Julietts. Julie is still ahead, with 308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Julie Juliett

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 2025, when Julie had 308 and Juliett had 58.

Side by side

  Julie Juliett
Total US births 512,777977
Most in one year 18,24858
Babies in 2025 30858
Estimated living today 452,000950
Median age today 5610
Peak year 19582025
Best rank 23rd girls2,895th girls
Rank in 2025 872nd2,895th
First recorded 18801924
Girls / boys 511,253 / 1,524977 / 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 Julietts are over 10. That is 46 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 Juliett.