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Yul vs Yuliana

American parents have registered 6,670 Yulianas since 1880, against 674 Yuls. Yuliana is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yul against Yuliana, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yul Yuliana

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

Of the 68 years in which either name was published, Yuliana for 45 years and Yul for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yul Yuliana
Total US births 6746,670
Most in one year 32365
Babies in 2025 5136
Estimated living today 5906,600
Median age today 5117
Peak year 19602007
Best rank 1,400th boys791st girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th1,548th
First recorded 19571981
Girls / boys 0 / 6746,670 / 0

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 Yuls alive today are over 51; half the Yulianas are over 17. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Yul Yuliana
France 1025
England and Wales 36

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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