Julien
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #709 for boys in 2025, 380 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 500 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,791since 1888
Julien over time
Rank among boys' names. Julien has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | #9,457 | 10 | #709 | 380 |
| 2024 | — | #701 | 384 | |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #638 | 432 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #660 | 415 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #618 | 450 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #585 | 472 |
| 2019 | — | #622 | 436 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #579 | 478 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #622 | 420 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #612 | 439 |
| 2015 | — | #625 | 428 | |
| 2014 | — | #672 | 380 | |
| 2013 | — | #620 | 400 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #582 | 441 |
| 2011 | — | #549 | 463 | |
| 2010 | — | #559 | 453 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #533 | 500 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #550 | 478 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #588 | 432 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #591 | 415 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #637 | 341 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #628 | 336 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #639 | 322 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #608 | 330 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #638 | 292 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #636 | 288 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #767 | 208 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #781 | 200 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #788 | 188 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #750 | 200 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #816 | 172 |
| 1994 | — | #927 | 140 | |
| 1993 | — | #889 | 144 | |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #867 | 148 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #819 | 159 |
| 1990 | — | #949 | 119 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,121 | 89 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,083 | 84 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,295 | 57 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,385 | 51 |
| 1985 | — | #1,116 | 69 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | — | #2,017 | 26 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,487 | 42 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,695 | 34 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,910 | 29 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,943 | 27 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,279 | 20 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,113 | 22 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,658 | 30 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,934 | 23 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,311 | 17 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,686 | 13 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,213 | 17 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,617 | 10 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,315 | 13 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,114 | 14 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,514 | 10 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,904 | 16 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,111 | 13 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,218 | 12 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,076 | 14 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,403 | 10 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,195 | 11 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | #2,268 | 11 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,207 | 11 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,471 | 21 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,050 | 12 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,639 | 17 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,127 | 12 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,783 | 16 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,997 | 13 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,777 | 17 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,927 | 15 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,178 | 13 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,199 | 13 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,387 | 12 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,298 | 13 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,605 | 22 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,390 | 28 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,322 | 30 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,827 | 19 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,804 | 10 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,592 | 23 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,531 | 23 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,767 | 19 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,528 | 22 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,849 | 16 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,782 | 16 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,441 | 18 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,417 | 12 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
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| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | #1,057 | 5 | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #907 | 6 | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #917 | 6 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
See more about Julien
- 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)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 2009 at #533 (500 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1990–2025
- 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
- 31.5% of all boys named Julien (4,338) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #917 (1888) | #917 |
| 1890s | 11 | #907 (1893) | #982 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 141 | #1,417 (1912) | #1,651 |
| 1920s | 186 | #1,322 (1923) | #1,947 |
| 1930s | 128 | #1,639 (1936) | #2,156 |
| 1940s | 113 | #1,471 (1940) | #2,135 |
| 1950s | 109 | #1,902 (1955) | #2,615 |
| 1960s | 96 | #2,139 (1967) | #2,874 |
| 1970s | 198 | #1,658 (1975) | #2,259 |
| 1980s | 520 | #1,083 (1988) | #1,467 |
| 1990s | 1,678 | #750 (1996) | #835 |
| 2000s | 3,734 | #533 (2009) | #605 |
| 2010s | 4,338 | #549 (2011) | #604 |
| 2020s | 2,533 | #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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 352,211 of them was named Julien, which outranked 13.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,665 names at #16,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 4,301 of them was named Julien, which outranked 95.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).