Juli
Feminine · “From the Roman family name Julius”
Juli is Julie without its final e, and unlike most such trims this one has a real European counterpart. Juli is the standard Hungarian short form of Júlia and a German and Hungarian spelling in its own right — so the same four letters are a respelling in one country and an ordinary name in another.
How old is the name Juli?
Juli first appears in US birth records in 1926 — 99 years ago. The typical Juli alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 5,800 people named Juli are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Juli most popular?
Juli peaked in 1961, reaching #564 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 6,569 places below that high. See the whole 1961 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Julius to Juli
The story of Juli
The gens Julia was one of the oldest patrician families in Rome and gave its name to the month of July and, through Julius Caesar's calendar, to the Julian year. The feminine Julia was borne by Caesar's own daughter and by several early saints, which carried it into Christian Europe. Hungarian took Júlia and clipped it to Juli by the ordinary rule that Hungarian short forms cut to two syllables. The American Juli, peaking in 1961, arrives alongside Julie's own peak and is generally the English name with a letter removed rather than the Hungarian one.
Meaningscholars disagree
From the Roman family name Julius, of disputed origin
Julia is the feminine of Julius, one of the great Roman gentilic names. Its own etymology is not settled: the family claimed descent from Iulus, son of Aeneas, and a connection to Jupiter has been proposed, as has a root meaning "downy-bearded" for a youth. None is established. What is certain is the Roman name and the whole family descended from it.
How the name formed
- Julius
- Julia
- Julie
- Juli
Related forms: Juli · Julie · Julia · Julieta · Юлия (Yuliya)
Pronouncing Juli
JOO-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Julie. Hungarian says YOO-li, with a Y and a short final vowel, which is a different name to an English ear.
Nicknames for Juli
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1926
- Most girls named
- 1961311 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #564reached in 1961
- Change vs 2023
- +87.5%15 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Juli in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Juli in Hungarian — same name
- Julie in French — same name
- Julia in Latin — related form
- Julieta in Spanish — related form
- Юлия (Yuliya) in Russian — same name
Julis among us
people named Juli are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Juli
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Juli
- #7133
- Juli on the 2025 chart
- #928
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Juli went to 15 girls in 2025, but July is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 928th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,205 places above the chart.
- July17
- Juli15
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Juli itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Corene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Juli's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Corene climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Corene's path sketches the road Juli is walking now.
Juli sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Juli beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Juli in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a genuinely ancient Roman lineage behind a very modern-looking spelling.
- It is a real name in Hungarian and German, not only an American trim.
- Four letters, two syllables, and no pronunciation difficulty in English.
- Julie is far more common and every form will assume it.
- The final i makes it read as a nickname to many English speakers.
- Juli, Julie, Julee and Jules are all in the records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Julis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,800 people named Juli are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Juli?
- Juli is one of 2 recorded spellings. July is the more common one — 17 births in 2025 against 15 for Juli.
- How popular is the name Juli in 2025?
- Juli ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Juli?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Juli — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Juli with classmates?
- Juli will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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