Jules
Jules is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 88 births. Its best rank was 412th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 880.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1928154 births
- Best rank
- #412in 1893
- Since 1880
- 11,247people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,251 boys have been named Jules in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 154 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Jules is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (1,996), most of them born around 2017.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jules | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 141 | |
| 1890s | 152 | |
| 1900s | 191 | |
| 1910s | 1,003 | |
| 1920s | 1,214 | |
| 1930s | 1,005 | |
| 1940s | 904 | |
| 1950s | 766 | |
| 1960s | 493 | |
| 1970s | 442 | |
| 1980s | 503 | |
| 1990s | 536 | |
| 2000s | 593 | |
| 2010s | 768 | |
| 2020s | 540 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Jules was the 489th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Jules
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mahlonpeak 1919
- Olinpeak 1921
- Louiepeak 2024
- Louispeak 1921
- Edmondpeak 1920
- Valentinepeak 1918
- Harrispeak 1921
- Irvinpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.