Julie
Feminine
Julie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 511,253 girls against 1,524 boys since 1880. See Julie as a boy name
Julie carries a Roman family name, and that family did something no other family has managed: it got two months of the year named after it, one for a general and the next for his heir. It also produced a calendar that ran for sixteen centuries before anybody noticed it was eleven minutes a year too long.
How old is the name Julie?
Julie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Julie alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 459,000 people named Julie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Julie most popular?
Julie peaked in 1971, reaching #10 nationally. Today it ranks #872, 862 places below that high. See the whole 1971 chart.
Where it comes from
From A Roman family name of unknown origin to Julie
The story of Julie
The calendar reform fixed a year of three hundred and sixty-five days with a leap day every fourth year, which is very close to right and not quite. The actual year is about eleven minutes shorter, and eleven minutes a year accumulates: by the sixteenth century the calendar had drifted ten days out of step with the sun, and Easter was sliding steadily toward summer. The correction, when it came, simply deleted ten days from October, and Catholic Europe went to bed on the fourth and woke on the fifteenth. Protestant countries refused for over a century on the grounds that it was a papal scheme, and Britain did not adopt it until seventeen fifty-two, by which point eleven days had to go. The month names survived all of it unchanged.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Roman family name has no established meaning. It is one of the oldest gentile names in Latin, probably pre-Latin in origin, and the connection to a Trojan prince that the family itself claimed is a genealogy rather than an etymology. The readings offered in name books, generally about youthfulness or about a god, are later guesses attached to a word that was already opaque to Romans.
How the name formed
- A Roman family name of unknown origin
- A calendar and two months named for the family
- Julie as the French feminine
- Widely used in America through the twentieth century
Related forms: Julie · Giulia · Julia · Julia
Pronouncing Julie
JOO-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first, in English. French puts it on the second and softens the j, giving zhoo-LEE, which is a noticeably different name written with identical letters.
Nicknames for Julie
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 196917,739 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #10reached in 1971
- Change vs 2022
- −24.7%308 in 2025, from 409
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.
Julie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Julie in French — same name
- Giulia in Italian — related form
- Julia in Spanish — related form
- Julia in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Julies among us
people named Julie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 5,218 born in 2025 was named Julie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Pamela test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Julie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Pamela climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Pamela's path sketches the road Julie is walking now.
Julie 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
Where Julie is headed
Julie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Julie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Julie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is completely familiar, universally spellable and has never needed explaining.
- Jules is immediate, unisex and thoroughly current.
- It has an unbroken two-thousand-year record behind it.
- It is closely associated with one American generation, and the association is immediate.
- Julie, Julia and Juliet are constantly confused in speech.
- There is no meaning to give, which surprises people about a name this old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Julies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 459,000 people named Julie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Julie in 2025?
- Julie ranks #872 among US girl names in 2025, with 308 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Julie?
- About 1 in every 5,218 US girls born in 2025 was named Julie — 308 in all.
- Will my child share the name Julie with classmates?
- Julie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Julie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Adrianna#872 · Marianna#872 · Kahlani#875 · Ayah#869 · Kylee#875 · Aspyn#869 · Johanna#869 · Lyanna#877
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