Julie

Where Julie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Julie.

  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Julie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #342 among girls, with 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1935
    Julie Andrews born
    British actress, singer and author
  3. 1940
    Julie Christie born
    British actress
  4. 1971
    Peak, #10
    15,322 babies named Julie, its best rank.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #46.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Julia.
Namesakes
  • Julie Andrews · British actress, singer and author, born 1935
  • Julie Christie · British actress, born 1940
  • Julie Delpy · French and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer, born 1969
  • Julie Kavner · American actress, born 1950
  • Julie Payette · 29th governor general of Canada, former CSA Astronaut, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.