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Julieta vs Julio

American parents have registered 64,197 Julios since 1880, against 11,689 Julietas. But in 2025 it was Julieta that was commoner, 1,086 babies to 436.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Julieta against Julio, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Julieta Julio

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 125 years in which either name was published, Julio for 119 years and Julieta for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Julieta Julio
Total US births 11,68964,197
Most in one year 1,0861,564
Babies in 2025 1,086436
Estimated living today 11,00057,000
Median age today 830
Peak year 20251990
Best rank 285th girls194th boys
Rank in 2025 285th641st
First recorded 19131888
Girls / boys 11,689 / 0422 / 63,775

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 Julios alive today are over 30; half the Julietas are over 8. That is 22 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 Julieta Julio
France 1452,530
England and Wales 106136
Belgium 615
Poland 42

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Julieta and Julio.