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Julias vs Julio

American parents have registered 64,197 Julios since 1880, against 108 Juliases. Julio is still ahead, with 436 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Julias against Julio, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Julias Julio

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

Julio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1925, when Julias had 9 and Julio had 145.

Side by side

  Julias Julio
Total US births 10864,197
Most in one year 111,564
Babies in 2025 under 5436
Estimated living today 10057,000
Median age today 1630
Peak year 20061990
Best rank 6,904th boys194th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked641st
First recorded 19251888
Girls / boys 0 / 108422 / 63,775

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 Julios alive today are over 30; half the Juliases are over 16. That is 14 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: Julias and Julio.