Julie

Where Julie comes from

The dictionaries list Julie as a given name — a female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #342 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.