Julian

14,572 people in the United States were counted with the surname Julian in the 2020 census, making it the 2,427th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,500.

By the numbers

People: 14,572
Rank: 2,427th
How common: 1 in 20,500
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Julian described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.9%
Hispanic or Latino 12.4%
Black, not Hispanic 7.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Julian

Ana Pastor Julián (born 1957)Spanish politician
Rupert Julian (1879–1943)Hollywood Director and Actor
Julian, Count of Ceuta (601–800)Byzantinian Governor of Ceuta
Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975)African-American chemist
Cyril Julian (born 1974)French basketball player
Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907)French painter, etcher and pedagogue, founder of the Académie Julian

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

Surnames like Julian

Also a first name

Julian has been given to 268,291 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.