Jules

#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births · #1,393 for boys in 2025, 131 births
Given to boys 81.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
1893 · 20 births
Debut · boys
16 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
9,383
since 1880

Jules over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201900peak #1,828, 2017peak #401, 1893girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,11788#1,393131
2024#2,28281#1,83388
2023#2,35277#1,608108
2022#2,03495#1,597110
2021#2,13188#1,529115
2020#1,893101#1,437120
2019#2,05692#1,634100
2018#1,97899#1,74488
2017#1,828112#1,72590
2016#1,908105#1,79984
2015#2,68566#1,65795
2014#2,21385#2,11665
2013#2,53370#2,09064
2012#2,56870#2,01669
2011#2,55570#2,26157
2010#2,40578#2,28756
2009#3,04756#2,01069
2008#2,95759#2,08866
2007#4,05038#2,64346
2006#3,50545#2,24856
2005#2,82758#1,81371
2004#3,07150#2,02459
2003#2,61061#1,96259
2002#1,98488#1,88859
2001#2,54060#1,98254
2000#3,02046#1,92454
1999#4,08828#1,99548
1998#5,58318#1,70060
1997#6,48314#1,70657
1996#6,72313#1,93346
1995#8,7669#1,73651
1994#7,09712#2,12338
1993#8,7199#1,57757
1992#11,7386#1,52558
1991#6,58813#1,35270
1990#7,30311#1,61551
1989#8,7618#1,45257
1988—#1,20471
1987#11,3255#1,31656
1986—#1,53543
1985—#1,45246
1984—#1,38247
1983—#1,29651
1982—#1,48742
1981—#1,41145
1980—#1,41045
1979—#1,11664
1978—#1,68832
1977—#1,40742
1976—#1,42739
1975—#1,30444
1974—#1,31142
1973—#1,13652
1972—#1,36438
1971—#1,35239
1970—#1,17050
1969—#1,05054
1968—#1,06848
1967—#1,13243
1966—#1,21638
1965—#1,02052
1964—#1,17243
1963—#1,10048
1962—#1,05652
1961—#99061
1960—#1,04554
1959—#97562
1958—#91568
1957—#91369
1956—#98657
1955—#84775
1954—#80081
1953—#701102
1952—#71796
1951—#81375
1950—#76181
1949—#82468
1948—#70590
1947—#671105
1946—#638101
1945—#69277
1944—#70777
1943—#65096
1942—#615105
1941—#64888
1940—#60097
1939—#60194
1938—#66781
1937—#59395
1936—#61789
1935—#70274
1934—#590100
1933—#563104
1932—#535120
1931—#503130
1930—#554118
1929—#532121
1928—#489154
1927—#526135
1926—#552122
1925—#547126
1924—#600113
1923—#572119
1922—#608113
1921—#589116
1920—#64995
1919—#526128
1918—#495146
1917—#518124
1916—#502127
1915—#528111
1914—#440119
1913—#46585
1912—#43381
1911—#42047
1910—#46135
1909—#49627
1908—#49925
1907—#63416
1906—#48921
1905—#57417
1904—#61214
1903—#43022
1902—#46021
1901—#50615
1900—#69913
1899—#54813
1898—#66311
1897—#49516
1896—#51816
1895—#49117
1894—#54314
1893—#40120
1892—#42220
1891—#49713
1890—#56612
1889—#54912
1888—#44218
1887—#54411
1886—#7587
1885—#52113
1884—#45017
1883—#41218
1882—#51413
1881—#43116
1880—#44216
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Jules was already there! It came in at #442, and was given to 16 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1886, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

Where Jules is popular in 1900

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Jules
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 440 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #1,393)
  • 44 spots since 2020 (#1,437 → #1,393)
  • 264 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #1,393)
  • Biggest jump: 214 spots in 1887 (#758 → #544)
  • Biggest drop: 237 spots in 1886 (#521 → #758)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1893 at #401 (20 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 81 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 81 yrs · run 1880–1959
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,808
  • Highest: 1 in 4,808 boys born in 1911 were named Jules (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,039 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #401 in 1893, was only 1 in 5,616 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 12.9% of all boys named Jules (1,214) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2019
  • Mostly girls until 2018, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s141#412 (1883)#506
1890s152#401 (1893)#514
1900s191#430 (1903)#540
1910s1,003#420 (1911)#479
1920s1,214#489 (1928)#566
1930s1,005#503 (1931)#593
1940s904#600 (1940)#675
1950s766#701 (1953)#843
1960s493#990 (1961)#1,085
1970s442#1,116 (1979)#1,328
1980s503#1,204 (1988)#1,395
1990s536#1,352 (1991)#1,726
2000s593#1,813 (2005)#2,058
2010s768#1,634 (2019)#1,933
2020s672#1,393 (2025)#1,566

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jules in 1900

boys
#699
13 births · 1 in 11,575 boys

Top boys' names in 1900

  1. #1John9,828
  2. #2William8,579
  3. #3James7,245
  4. #4George5,403
  5. #5Charles4,098
  6. #6Robert3,821
  7. #7Joseph3,714
  8. #8Frank3,477
  9. #9Edward2,720
  10. #10Henry2,606
  11. #699Jules13
More about 1900

boys

150,474 boys got a published name in 1900; 1 in 11,575 of them was named Jules, which outranked 53.6% of the 1,506 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jules
  1. #680Theo14
  2. #680Walton14
  3. #680Wyatt14
  4. #699Jules13
  5. #699Alden13
  6. #699Alma13
  7. #699Benton13
  8. #743Alberto12
  9. #743Ammon12
  10. #743Antone12

Tied with 43 names at #699; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1899
Risers
  1. ↑ 561Bertha#1,051 → #490
  2. ↑ 526Wilber#928 → #402
  3. ↑ 517Lonie#1,051 → #534
  4. ↑ 517Pasquale#1,051 → #534
  5. ↑ 473Boyce#1,051 → #578
Fallers
  1. ↓ 829Dora#481 → #1,310
  2. ↓ 697Sarah#613 → #1,310
  3. ↓ 697Fannie#613 → #1,310
  4. ↓ 681Lem#481 → #1,162
  5. ↓ 656Merritt#394 → #1,050

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1900 →