Yulian
Masculine
Yulian is Julian as Russian and Bulgarian say it, and behind it is the Roman family that gave its name to a calendar. The Julian calendar ran the Western world for sixteen centuries and still runs the Orthodox church year.
How old is the name Yulian?
Yulian first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Yulian is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Yulian are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yulian most popular?
Yulian peaked in 2024, reaching #2345 nationally. Today it ranks #3089, 744 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iulius to Yulian
The story of Yulian
Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar in 46 BC and the version he introduced carried his family's name for the next sixteen hundred years; the Orthodox churches still calculate their feasts by it, which is why Orthodox Christmas falls in January. Julianus was a Roman name meaning simply that one belonged to the Julii, and it survived through several saints. Slavic languages took it from Greek as Yulian, and it reaches United States records with Russian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian families.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Julius is a Roman gens name and, like most of them, has no established derivation; the family's own claim of descent from Iulus, son of Aeneas, is legend rather than etymology. Julianus means 'of the Julii', so the ending is certain and the root is not. Yulian is the Russian and Bulgarian form, which writes the initial sound as a Y because Cyrillic has a letter for it.
How the name formed
- Iulius
- Iulianus
- Yulian
Related forms: Julian · Юлиан · Yulian · Julián
Pronouncing Yulian
yoo-lee-AHN
Three syllables with the stress on the last in Russian and Bulgarian. English speakers say YOOL-ee-un, moving the stress to the front, which is the Julian pattern rather than the Slavic one.
Nicknames for Yulian
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
- 1996
- Most boys named
- 202460 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2345reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −35.0%39 in 2025, from 60
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.
Yulian in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Julian in English — same name
- Юлиан in Russian — transliteration
- Yulian in Bulgarian — same name
- Julián in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Yulians among us
people named Yulian are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 43,797 born in 2025 was named Yulian
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 Aedyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yulian's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aedyn climbed just as high around 2008, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aedyn's path sketches the road Yulian is walking now.
Yulian 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 Yulian is headed
Yulian looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 38% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Yulian beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yulian in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Roman origin with an unusually visible legacy in the calendar.
- Yuli and Jules are ready short forms in two languages.
- Three syllables that read correctly in Slavic languages and are easy in English.
- Julian is the English form and this name will be translated to it constantly.
- The stress falls differently in Slavic and English use.
- Yulian, Julian, Julien and Julián are one name in four quite different spellings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yulians are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Yulian are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yulian in 2025?
- Yulian ranks #3089 among US boy names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yulian?
- About 1 in every 43,797 US boys born in 2025 was named Yulian — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yulian with classmates?
- Yulian will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yulian
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