Julien

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #709 for boys in 2025, 380 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
2009 · 500 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
13,791
since 1888

Julien over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Julien has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201888peak #533, 2009boys
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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#9,45710#709380
2024—#701384
2023#6,92216#638432
2022#9,05611#660415
2021#13,4646#618450
2020#13,4536#585472
2019—#622436
2018#15,6825#579478
2017#15,9025#622420
2016#11,7818#612439
2015—#625428
2014—#672380
2013—#620400
2012#16,8695#582441
2011—#549463
2010—#559453
2009#13,7047#533500
2008#12,5798#550478
2007#10,81810#588432
2006#13,6067#591415
2005#10,9219#637341
2004#14,1796#628336
2003#12,4087#639322
2002#8,83711#608330
2001#7,72413#638292
2000#13,1546#636288
1999#8,80510#767208
1998#7,53212#781200
1997#9,0179#788188
1996#9,5818#750200
1995#13,3865#816172
1994—#927140
1993—#889144
1992#8,7349#867148
1991#13,1475#819159
1990—#949119
1989—#1,12189
1988#9,2447#1,08384
1987#11,3255#1,29557
1986#7,7498#1,38551
1985—#1,11669
1984#8,1537#1,55639
1983—#2,01726
1982—#1,48742
1981—#1,69534
1980—#1,91029
1979—#1,94327
1978—#2,27920
1977—#2,45818
1976—#2,11322
1975—#1,65830
1974—#1,93423
1973—#2,31117
1972—#2,99111
1971—#2,68613
1970—#2,21317
1969—#2,86110
1968—#3,1078
1967—#2,13914
1966—#2,32712
1965—#2,61710
1964—#4,0395
1963—#2,67310
1962—#3,3057
1961—#3,3567
1960—#2,31513
1959—#3,6196
1958—#2,50611
1957—#3,2577
1956—#2,7989
1955—#1,90217
1954—#2,11414
1953—#3,4256
1952—#2,51410
1951—#1,90416
1950—#2,11113
1949—#2,45310
1948—#2,21812
1947—#2,07614
1946—#2,40310
1945—#1,92613
1944—#2,19511
1943——
1942—#2,26811
1941—#2,20711
1940—#1,47121
1939—#2,05012
1938—#3,1756
1937—#2,9057
1936—#1,63917
1935—#2,12712
1934—#1,78316
1933—#1,99713
1932—#1,77717
1931—#1,92715
1930—#2,17813
1929—#2,19913
1928—#2,38712
1927—#2,29813
1926—#1,60522
1925—#1,39028
1924—#2,04316
1923—#1,32230
1922—#1,82719
1921—#2,80410
1920—#1,59223
1919—#1,53123
1918—#1,76719
1917—#1,52822
1916—#1,84916
1915—#1,78216
1914—#1,44118
1913—#1,80310
1912—#1,41712
1911—#1,7405
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First appearance
1888

The first year at least five boys were named Julien! It came in at #917, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1892, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Julien is popular in 1888

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Julien
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 8 spots since 2024 (#701 → #709)
  • 124 spots since 2020 (#585 → #709)
  • 84 spots since 2015 (#625 → #709)
  • Biggest jump: 172 spots in 1990 (#1,121 → #949)
  • Biggest drop: 63 spots in 2024 (#638 → #701)
Rise & fade · boys
121 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1888
  • Peaked 2009 at #533 (500 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 38 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1990–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,657
  • Highest: 1 in 3,657 boys born in 2020 were named Julien (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,495 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
  • Its best rank, #533 in 2009, was only 1 in 3,967 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 31.5% of all boys named Julien (4,338) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s6#917 (1888)#917
1890s11#907 (1893)#982
1900s0——
1910s141#1,417 (1912)#1,651
1920s186#1,322 (1923)#1,947
1930s128#1,639 (1936)#2,156
1940s113#1,471 (1940)#2,135
1950s109#1,902 (1955)#2,615
1960s96#2,139 (1967)#2,874
1970s198#1,658 (1975)#2,259
1980s520#1,083 (1988)#1,467
1990s1,678#750 (1996)#835
2000s3,734#533 (2009)#605
2010s4,338#549 (2011)#604
2020s2,533#585 (2020)#652

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.

Julien in 1888

boys
#917
6 births · 1 in 20,142 boys

Top boys' names in 1888

  1. #1John9,247
  2. #2William8,705
  3. #3James5,562
  4. #4George4,912
  5. #5Charles4,591
  6. #6Frank3,459
  7. #7Joseph2,993
  8. #8Robert2,814
  9. #9Harry2,759
  10. #10Henry2,596
  11. #917Julien6
More about 1888

boys

120,852 boys got a published name in 1888; 1 in 20,142 of them was named Julien, which outranked 22.1% of the 1,177 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 39.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Julien
  1. #815Volney7
  2. #815Willian7
  3. #815Zollie7
  4. #917Julien6
  5. #917Abbott6
  6. #917Alan6
  7. #917Alden6
  8. #1,031Ad5
  9. #1,031Ada5
  10. #1,031Addie5

Tied with 113 names at #917; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1887
Risers
  1. ↑ 416Dell#921 → #505
  2. ↑ 416Reed#921 → #505
  3. ↑ 377Simeon#819 → #442
  4. ↑ 375Hardy#752 → #377
  5. ↑ 367Hazel#921 → #554
Fallers
  1. ↓ 487Connie#544 → #1,031
  2. ↓ 448Alice#583 → #1,031
  3. ↓ 448Shelton#583 → #1,031
  4. ↓ 401Bruno#516 → #917
  5. ↓ 401Young#516 → #917

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

See the top 100 for 1888 →