Julian

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Julian boys named Julian

By the numbers

Total US births

268,291

Estimated living today

241,000

Median age today

15

Peak year

2017

Best rank

37th

Rank in 2025

25th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

3,306 / 264,985

How old the living Julians are

born that year still alive today

Of the 268,291 babies given the name since 1880, about 241,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 139,000 of them are children and 6,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Latin

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Julians

• Julian Assange (born 1971)Australian editor, publisher, and activist
• Julian Seymour Schwinger (1918–1994)American theoretical physicist
• Julian Draxler (born 1993)German association football player
• Julian Barnes (born 1946)English writer
• Julián Alvarez (born 2000)Argentine footballer
• Julian Huxley (1887–1975)British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author
• Julian Nagelsmann (born 1987)German association football manager
• Julian Tuwim (1894–1953)Polish poet

People named Julian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Julian is most common

• CA56,398
• TX37,600
• NY15,850
• FL14,951
• IL13,165
• AZ8,232
• GA7,825
• PA7,711
• NJ7,057
• NC6,791

Relative to how many babies each state records, Julian is most concentrated in Nevada (3.1×), New Mexico (2.8×), Arizona (2.5×), California (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular boys’ names the year Julian peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• William
• James
• Logan
• Benjamin

All the names of 2017

Julian elsewhere

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.

Julian: births by region

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, Julian is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.53% of children were given it – 43 of them.

Julian: rank by region

In 2025, Julian was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2019, Julian was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Julian was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Julian appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (34th), Province of Flemish Brabant (112th), Province of Antwerp (127th), Province of West Flanders (138th), Province of Liège (147th), Brussels-Capital Region (187th), Province of Hainaut (215th) and Province of East Flanders (264th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.

Julian by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Julian 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.

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.

Where Julian lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 59,313 men called Julian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Julie
• Julia
• Julius
• Juliana
• Julio
• Julianna
• Juliette
• Juliet
• Julianne
• Julissa
• Julien
• Julieta

Julian against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Julian vs Julie
• Julian vs Julia
• Julian vs Julius
• Julian vs Juliana
• Julian vs Julio
• Julian vs Julianna

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