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Julie vs Jullian

American parents have registered 512,777 Julies since 1880, against 3,769 Jullians. Julie is still ahead, with 308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Julie Jullian

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 2010, when Julie had 823 and Jullian had 164.

Side by side

  Julie Jullian
Total US births 512,7773,769
Most in one year 18,248175
Babies in 2025 30823
Estimated living today 452,0003,700
Median age today 5621
Peak year 19582009
Best rank 23rd girls1,112th boys
Rank in 2025 872nd4,396th
First recorded 18801973
Girls / boys 511,253 / 1,524948 / 2,821

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 Jullians are over 21. That is 35 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Julie Jullian
France 215,495585
Belgium 12,50118
England and Wales 8576

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: Julie and Jullian.