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Julius vs Juluis

American parents have registered 85,038 Juliuses since 1880, against 893 Juluises. Julius is still ahead, with 759 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Julius Juluis

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

Julius 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 1898, when Julius had 181 and Juluis had 8.

Side by side

  Julius Juluis
Total US births 85,038893
Most in one year 1,42233
Babies in 2025 759under 5
Estimated living today 46,000240
Median age today 2553
Peak year 19181923
Best rank 118th boys1,256th boys
Rank in 2025 424thunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 410 / 84,6280 / 893

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 Juluises alive today are over 53; half the Juliuses are over 25. That is 28 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: Julius and Juluis.