Jules — #1831 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jules

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,251 babies named Jules between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jules currently holds the #1831 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 154 babies received it in a single year. Jules is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,996 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jules performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jules shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 1,570 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Jules in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jules in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,251 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.