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Yul vs Yulianna

American parents have registered 1,401 Yuliannas since 1880, against 674 Yuls. Yulianna is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yul against Yulianna, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yul Yulianna

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 65 years in which either name was published, Yul for 35 years and Yulianna for 30 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yul Yulianna
Total US births 6741,401
Most in one year 3280
Babies in 2025 529
Estimated living today 5901,400
Median age today 5115
Peak year 19602007
Best rank 1,400th boys2,368th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th4,661st
First recorded 19571989
Girls / boys 0 / 6741,401 / 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 Yuliannas are over 15. That is 36 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: Yul and Yulianna.