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Juliana vs Julias

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 108 Juliases. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juliana against Julias, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juliana Julias

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Juliana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1925, when Juliana had 64 and Julias had 9.

Side by side

  Juliana Julias
Total US births 67,797108
Most in one year 2,22511
Babies in 2025 1,203under 5
Estimated living today 64,000100
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 162nd girls6,904th boys
Rank in 2025 256thunranked
First recorded 18811925
Girls / boys 67,748 / 490 / 108

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Julianas alive today are over 18; half the Juliases are over 16. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Juliana and Julias.