July
- #6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Given to girls 75.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 17 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 854since 1962
July over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | — | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five girls were named July! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where July is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named July in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about July
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 379 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #6,546)
- 1,898 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #6,546)
- 1,419 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1976 at #3,812 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 57,734
- Highest: 1 in 57,734 girls born in 2020 were named July (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,812 in 1976, was only 1 in 86,182 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 21.9% of all girls named July (187) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
- Mostly boys until 2019, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 38 | #4,723 (1969) | #6,002 |
| 1970s | 122 | #3,812 (1976) | #4,905 |
| 1980s | 115 | #4,724 (1986) | #6,235 |
| 1990s | 124 | #5,004 (1991) | #7,338 |
| 2000s | 149 | #5,906 (2006) | #8,159 |
| 2010s | 187 | #5,127 (2015) | #6,712 |
| 2020s | 119 | #4,648 (2020) | #6,102 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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