Jules
About 11,467 American babies have been named Jules since 1880, most of them around 1928. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,393rd. About 6,900 Juleses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jules boys named Jules
Girls and boys called Jules
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,084 girls and 9,383 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 88 to 131.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 118 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,467
- Estimated living today
- 6,900
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 489th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,393rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,084 / 9,383
How old the living Juleses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,467 babies given the name since 1880, about 6,900 are alive — 60 in every hundred. Roughly 3,000 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Juless
- Jules Verne (1828–1905)French writer
- Jules Renard (1864–1910)French author
- Jules Michelet (1798–1874)French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
- Jules Bordet (1870–1961)Belgian immunologist and microbiologist
- Jules Massenet (1842–1912)French composer
- Jules Grévy (1807–1891)French statesman and lawyer
- Jules Koundé (born 1998)French footballer
- Jules A. Hoffmann (born 1941)French biologist
People named Jules with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jules is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jules is most concentrated in Louisiana (15.3×), New York (3.4×), Pennsylvania (1.9×), California (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular boys’ names the year Jules peaked:
Jules elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jules | 175,905 | 2nd |
| Belgium boys | Jules | 9,855 | 3rd |
| Switzerland boys | Jules | 1,527 | 88th |
| England and Wales boys | Jules | 669 | 867th |
| France girls | Jules | 125 | 2,351st |
| Belgium girls | Jules | 62 | 884th |
| England and Wales girls | Jules | 57 | 2,788th |
| Ireland boys | Jules | 23 | 491st |
| Ireland girls | Jules | 19 | 512th |
| Scotland boys | Jules | 10 | 599th |
| Scotland girls | Jules | 3 | 667th |
| Poland boys | Jules | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jules: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jules | 256 | 0.021% | 293rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jules | 1,263 | 0.290% | 13th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jules | 8 | 0.012% | 95th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jules is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.42% of children were given it – 62 of them.
Jules: rank by region
In 2025, Jules was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jules | 2 | 316 |
| Wallonia | Jules | 4 | 169 |
| Brussels | Jules | 53 | 18 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jules appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (2nd), Province of East Flanders (2nd), Province of Walloon Brabant (2nd), Province of Namur (2nd), Province of West Flanders (3rd), Province of Luxembourg (3rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (5th), Province of Liège (10th), Province of Hainaut (12th), Province of Limburg (15th) and Brussels-Capital Region (53rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jules by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jules among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jules | 2,891 | 4,365 |
| the Netherlands girls | Jules | 181 | 339 |
| Finland boys | Jules | 40 | 67 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jules against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.