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Julio vs Jullian

American parents have registered 64,197 Julios since 1880, against 3,769 Jullians. Julio is still ahead, with 436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Julio 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

Julio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Julio had 928 and Jullian had 164.

Side by side

  Julio Jullian
Total US births 64,1973,769
Most in one year 1,564175
Babies in 2025 43623
Estimated living today 57,0003,700
Median age today 3021
Peak year 19902009
Best rank 194th boys1,112th boys
Rank in 2025 641st4,396th
First recorded 18881973
Girls / boys 422 / 63,775948 / 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 Julios alive today are over 30; half the Jullians are over 21. That is 9 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 Julio Jullian
France 2,530585
England and Wales 1366
Belgium 1518

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: Julio and Jullian.