Julius
Julius is a boy's name that peaked in 1918, when it was the 118th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 424th. About 46,000 Juliuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Julius boys named Julius
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 85,038
- Estimated living today
- 46,000
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 118th
- Rank in 2025
- 424th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 410 / 84,628
How old the living Juliuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 85,038 babies given the name since 1880, about 46,000 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 7,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Juliuss
- Julius II (1443–1513)pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513
- Julius Nyerere (1922–1999)Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania
- Julius III (1487–1555)pope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940)Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist
- Julius Streicher (1885–1946)German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal
- Julius Axelrod (1912–2004)American biochemist
- Julius Erving (born 1950)American basketball player
- Julius Fučík (1903–1943)Czech journalist and revolutionary
People named Julius with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Julius is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Julius is most concentrated in South Carolina (3.0×), Mississippi (2.2×), Alabama (1.8×), North Carolina (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Julius peaked:
Julius elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Julius | 755 | 794th |
| France boys | Julius | 625 | 1,419th |
| Norway boys | Julius | 556 | 227th |
| Switzerland boys | Julius | 523 | 260th |
| Denmark boys | Julius | 340 | 49th |
| Belgium boys | Julius | 304 | 360th |
| Sweden boys | Julius | 288 | 87th |
| Ireland boys | Julius | 44 | 448th |
| Poland boys | Julius | 33 birth registrations | 424th |
| Scotland boys | Julius | 16 | 536th |
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.
Julius: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Julius | 489 | 0.039% | 193rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Julius | 33 | 0.008% | 436th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Julius | 1 | 0.002% | 195th |
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, Julius is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.10% of children were given it – 36 of them.
Julius: rank by region
In 2025, Julius was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Julius | 429 | 13 |
In 2023, Julius was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Julius | 257 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Julius appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (178th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Julius by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 505 | 37th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Julius 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 | Julius | 5,576 | 12,116 |
| the Netherlands boys | Julius | 3,848 | 9,002 |
| the Netherlands girls | Julius | — | 55 |
| Finland girls | Julius | 9 | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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 Julius lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 200 men called Julius 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Julius | 16 | 0.028 | 2,585 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Julius | 13 | 0.024 | 2,834 |
| Balears, Illes | Julius | 11 | 0.018 | 2,901 |
| Girona | Julius | 7 | 0.017 | 2,753 |
| Barcelona | Julius | 41 | 0.014 | 3,095 |
| Almería | Julius | 5 | 0.013 | 3,380 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 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
Julius against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.