Julio

Where Julio comes from

Julio hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #917 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1914
    Julio Cortázar born
    Argentine writer and translator
  3. 1962
    Julio Salinas born
    Spanish association football player
  4. 1990
    Peak, #194
    1,556 babies named Julio — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #383.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Julio Cortázar · Argentine writer and translator, 1914–1984
  • Julio Salinas · Spanish association football player, born 1962
  • Julio María Sanguinetti · 35th and 37th President of Uruguay, born 1936
  • Julio Argentino Roca · Argentine politician and general, former president of Argentina, 1843–1914
  • Julio Ricardo Cruz · Argentine footballer, born 1974

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.