Julia
Julia is ranked 116th among girls in 2024 (2,359 births). Its best rank was 26th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #116up 5 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,3590.15% of girls
- Peak year
- 20018,838 births
- Best rank
- #26in 1880
- Since 1880
- 475,798people given the name
The story in the numbers
474,054 girls have been named Julia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 8,838 births — 0.49% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 86 → 116).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 2000s alone account for 15%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 100 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,744 boys have also been given it, 0.37% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Julia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,800 | |
| 1890s | 13,448 | |
| 1900s | 16,107 | |
| 1910s | 39,259 | |
| 1920s | 40,331 | |
| 1930s | 24,937 | |
| 1940s | 27,890 | |
| 1950s | 32,456 | |
| 1960s | 34,181 | |
| 1970s | 23,419 | |
| 1980s | 33,355 | |
| 1990s | 59,951 | |
| 2000s | 70,877 | |
| 2010s | 35,903 | |
| 2020s | 12,140 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Julia was the 27th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Julia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Daiseypeak 2000
- Ninapeak 1980
- Nanapeak 2000
- Gracepeak 2003
- Helenapeak 2024
- Flaviapeak 1921
- Celiapeak 1915
- Elizabethpeak 1990
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.