Jullian
Feminine · “Belonging to Julius”
Jullian is given to both — 948 girls and 2,821 boys since 1880. See Jullian as a boy nameSee other names given to both
One extra letter separates Jullian from a name with two thousand years of use behind it. The doubled l changes nothing in the mouth, and everything about how the name looks on paper: it turns an old Roman inheritance into a spelling choice made in living memory.
How old is the name Jullian?
Jullian first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Jullian alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 900 people named Jullian are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jullian most popular?
Jullian peaked in 1986, reaching #1691 nationally. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iulius to Jullian
The story of Jullian
Julianus was a Roman name long before it was a Christian one, and the most famous man to carry it spent his short reign trying to reverse the empire's direction: Julian, raised Christian, took the throne, declared for the old gods, reopened the temples, and died on campaign in Persia before he was much past thirty. The Church has called him the Apostate ever since. Medieval England took the name and made a feminine from it that almost nobody recognizes today as related — Gillian, with a soft opening, which the modern spelling Jillian now hides completely. So the boys' Julian and the girls' Jillian are one name, separated by the way Norman clerks wrote a Latin J.
Meaningscholars disagree
Belonging to Julius, the Roman family name
Julian is the adjective form of Julius, so the name means, plainly, of the Julian family. What Julius itself meant is a different question. The family claimed descent from Iulus, son of Aeneas, and Roman writers repeated it, but that is a lineage story rather than an etymology, and the older sense of the name has not been recovered. A reading of downy-bearded, sometimes offered, is a late guess.
How the name formed
- Iulius
- Iulianus
- Julian
- Jullian
Related forms: Julien · Julián · Giuliano · Julião · Julian
Pronouncing Jullian
JOOL-yun
Three syllables flatten to two in ordinary American speech. The doubled l is silent as a doubling; it does not lengthen anything.
Nicknames for Jullian
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
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 198669 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1691reached in 1986
- Change vs 2015
- +40.0%7 in 2016, from 5
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.
Jullian in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Julien in French — same name
- Julián in Spanish — same name
- Giuliano in Italian — same name
- Julião in Portuguese — same name
- Julian in Polish — same name
Jullians among us
people named Jullian are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jullian sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The name underneath is ancient, widely understood and carried without difficulty in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
- It gives a boy a short form, Jules, that works from the playground to a professional signature.
- It travels across the Spanish-speaking world with only an accent mark changing.
- The second l will be dropped by almost everyone who writes the name without looking, including teachers and clerks, for as long as he has it.
- This spelling is recorded for girls as well, though the boys have nearly all of it, and a girl carrying it will be assumed to be a boy on paper more often than the other way around.
- Julian, Julien and Julián are all in the same room; the name will be revised toward whichever one the listener knows best.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jullians are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Jullian are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jullian in 2025?
- Jullian is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jullian with classmates?
- Jullian will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More J names
The most-given names starting with J, all years combined.
Jennifer#586 · Jessica#665 · Janet#2778 · Julie#872 · Joyce#1071 · Joan#1085 · Julia#131 · Jean#2117
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