Julia

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Julia boys named Julia

By the numbers

Total US births

477,993

Estimated living today

314,000

Median age today

31

Peak year

2001

Best rank

27th

Rank in 2025

131st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

476,250 / 1,743

How old the living Julias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 477,993 babies given the name since 1880, about 314,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 60,000 of them are children and 53,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Julias

• Julia Roberts (born 1967)American actress
• Julia Gillard (born 1961)Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013
• Julia Kristeva (born 1941)Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
• Julia Child (1912–2004)American chef
• Julia Stiles (born 1981)American actress
• Julia Sanina (born 1990)Ukrainian singer
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961)American actress
• Julia Garner (born 1994)American actress and model

People named Julia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Julia is most common

• CA38,847
• NY38,533
• PA29,413
• TX29,270
• IL20,919
• OH19,553
• NJ17,155
• MA14,977
• FL14,704
• MI14,273

Relative to how many babies each state records, Julia is most concentrated in Connecticut (1.6×), Delaware (1.5×), South Carolina (1.5×), New Jersey (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2001

The most popular girls’ names the year Julia peaked:

• Emily
• Madison
• Hannah
• Ashley
• Alexis
• Sarah

All the names of 2001

Julia elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Julia: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Julia is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.89% of children were given it – 72 of them.

Julia: rank by region

In 2025, Julia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Julia was among the 10 most common names in 12 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 7 different years.

In 2021, Julia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Julia was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Julia appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (6th), Province of West Flanders (12th), Province of Flemish Brabant (16th), Province of Hainaut (16th), Province of Liège (18th), Province of Antwerp (19th), Province of Limburg (25th), Province of Walloon Brabant (26th), Province of Namur (31st), Brussels-Capital Region (47th) and Province of East Flanders (60th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Julia by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Julia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Julia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 790 men called Julia and 129,527 women called Julia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Julie
• Julian
• Julius
• Juliana
• Julio
• Julianna
• Juliette
• Juliet
• Julianne
• Julissa
• Julien
• Julieta

Julia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Julia vs Julie
• Julia vs Julian
• Julia vs Julius
• Julia vs Juliana
• Julia vs Julio
• Julia vs Julianna

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