Julien
About 14,032 American babies have been named Julien since 1888, most of them around 2009. In 2025 it ranked 709th. About 13,000 Juliens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Julien boys named Julien
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,032
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 533rd
- Rank in 2025
- 709th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 241 / 13,791
How old the living Juliens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,032 babies given the name since 1888, about 13,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 7,900 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Juliens
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)French physician and philosopher
- Julien Green (1900–1998)American author
- Julien Gracq (1910–2007)French writer
- Julien Alfred (born 2001)Saint Lucian sprinter
- Julien Duvivier (1896–1967)French film director
- Julien Faubert (born 1983)French footballer
- Julien Benda (1867–1956)French essayist and philosopher
- Julien Escudé (born 1979)French footballer
People named Julien with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Julien is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Julien is most concentrated in Nevada (2.6×), Florida (2.6×), Arizona (2.0×), California (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Julien peaked:
Julien elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Julien | 345,165 | 1st |
| Belgium boys | Julien | 6,466 | 9th |
| Switzerland boys | Julien | 1,625 | 60th |
| England and Wales boys | Julien | 274 | 1,560th |
| Poland boys | Julien | 41 birth registrations | 252nd |
| France girls | Julien | 35 | 4,011th |
| Ireland boys | Julien | 16 | 676th |
| Scotland boys | Julien | 4 | 605th |
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.
Julien: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Julien | 694 | 0.056% | 127th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Julien | 916 | 0.211% | 10th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Julien | 15 | 0.023% | 100th |
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, Julien is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.23% of children were given it – 378 of them.
Julien: rank by region
In 2025, Julien was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Julien | 49 | 92 |
| Wallonia | Julien | 317 | 8 |
| Brussels | Julien | 225 | 6 |
In 2023, Julien was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Julien | 9 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Julien appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (12th), Province of East Flanders (40th), Province of Antwerp (66th), Province of Flemish Brabant (177th) and Brussels-Capital Region (225th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Julien by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 32 | 291st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Julien 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Julien | 24 | 54 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Julien lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 343 men called Julien 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Julien | 15 | 0.036 | 1,602 |
| Barcelona | Julien | 89 | 0.031 | 1,673 |
| Balears, Illes | Julien | 19 | 0.031 | 1,816 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Julien | 28 | 0.028 | 2,090 |
| Tarragona | Julien | 10 | 0.023 | 2,151 |
| Valencia/València | Julien | 29 | 0.021 | 2,218 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 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.
Related names
Julien against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.