Julia
Julia was given to 2,172 girls in 2025, #131 among girls’ names; 477,993 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 311,000 Americans named Julia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Julia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Julia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Julia is “a female given name from Latin.”
From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints. Doublet of Julie.
/ˈd͡ʒu.ljə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Julia?
#131 among girls’ names, 2025
Julia fell from #89 in 2015 to #131 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.9 to 1.4 per 1,000.
8,849 babies in 2001, the peak
Julia peaked in 2001, when 8,849 babies were given it (8,838 girls, #27 among girls’ names). The 2,172 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,172 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,372 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 2,299 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 2,545 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 2,433 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 2,508 | #108 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 2,787 | #99 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 3,010 | #93 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 3,125 | #93 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 3,344 | #88 | 1.9 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,375 | #89 | 1.9 |
| 2014 | 3,605 | #86 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 3,754 | #75 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 3,882 | #65 | 2.2 |
| 2011 | 4,350 | #58 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 4,677 | #55 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 4,996 | #50 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5,620 | #41 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 6,133 | #34 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 6,884 | #31 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 7,089 | #31 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7,149 | #32 | 3.9 |
| 2003 | 7,437 | #33 | 4.1 |
| 2002 | 7,965 | #33 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 8,838 | #27 | 4.9 |
| 2000 | 8,769 | #29 | 4.8 |
| 1999 | 8,753 | #30 | 4.9 |
| 1998 | 8,328 | #32 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 7,341 | #37 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6,314 | #48 | 3.6 |
| 1995 | 5,411 | #62 | 3.1 |
| 1994 | 4,844 | #72 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 4,663 | #72 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5,021 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5,365 | #67 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 3,914 | #83 | 2.1 |
| 1989 | 3,370 | #96 | 1.8 |
| 1988 | 3,359 | #88 | 1.9 |
| 1987 | 3,331 | #86 | 1.9 |
| 1986 | 3,109 | #88 | 1.8 |
| 1985 | 3,206 | #85 | 1.9 |
| 1984 | 3,359 | #87 | 2.0 |
| 1983 | 3,381 | #85 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 3,502 | #84 | 2.1 |
| 1981 | 3,668 | #88 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 3,069 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 1979 | 2,568 | #122 | 1.6 |
| 1978 | 2,593 | #112 | 1.7 |
| 1977 | 2,060 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1976 | 1,914 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 1975 | 2,001 | #137 | 1.4 |
| 1974 | 2,068 | #136 | 1.4 |
| 1973 | 2,089 | #136 | 1.4 |
| 1972 | 2,334 | #132 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 2,609 | #130 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 3,178 | #121 | 1.8 |
| 1969 | 3,712 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 1968 | 2,990 | #113 | 1.8 |
| 1967 | 2,775 | #123 | 1.7 |
| 1966 | 3,046 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 1965 | 3,102 | #123 | 1.8 |
| 1964 | 3,541 | #117 | 1.9 |
| 1963 | 3,569 | #122 | 1.9 |
| 1962 | 3,752 | #120 | 1.9 |
| 1961 | 3,902 | #116 | 1.9 |
| 1960 | 3,790 | #122 | 1.9 |
| 1959 | 3,940 | #116 | 1.9 |
| 1958 | 3,835 | #119 | 1.9 |
| 1957 | 3,689 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 1956 | 3,319 | #131 | 1.7 |
| 1955 | 3,287 | #131 | 1.7 |
| 1954 | 3,157 | #127 | 1.6 |
| 1953 | 2,974 | #124 | 1.6 |
| 1952 | 2,781 | #131 | 1.5 |
| 1951 | 2,748 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1950 | 2,727 | #119 | 1.6 |
| 1949 | 2,922 | #112 | 1.7 |
| 1948 | 2,775 | #118 | 1.6 |
| 1947 | 2,953 | #116 | 1.7 |
| 1946 | 2,797 | #114 | 1.8 |
| 1945 | 2,328 | #115 | 1.8 |
| 1944 | 2,685 | #102 | 2.0 |
| 1943 | 2,972 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 1942 | 2,906 | #95 | 2.2 |
| 1941 | 2,844 | #88 | 2.4 |
| 1940 | 2,709 | #91 | 2.4 |
| 1939 | 2,635 | #91 | 2.4 |
| 1938 | 2,479 | #107 | 2.2 |
| 1937 | 2,284 | #112 | 2.1 |
| 1936 | 2,278 | #105 | 2.2 |
| 1935 | 2,341 | #102 | 2.2 |
| 1934 | 2,357 | #105 | 2.3 |
| 1933 | 2,403 | #97 | 2.4 |
| 1932 | 2,657 | #92 | 2.5 |
| 1931 | 2,624 | #91 | 2.5 |
| 1930 | 2,880 | #90 | 2.6 |
| 1929 | 2,950 | #88 | 2.6 |
| 1928 | 3,206 | #80 | 2.8 |
| 1927 | 3,586 | #76 | 3.0 |
| 1926 | 3,688 | #75 | 3.1 |
| 1925 | 4,047 | #65 | 3.3 |
| 1924 | 4,289 | #62 | 3.4 |
| 1923 | 4,323 | #62 | 3.6 |
| 1922 | 4,616 | #60 | 3.8 |
| 1921 | 4,737 | #58 | 3.8 |
| 1920 | 4,889 | #55 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 4,950 | #48 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5,268 | #48 | 4.6 |
| 1917 | 5,078 | #47 | 4.7 |
| 1916 | 5,066 | #46 | 4.9 |
| 1915 | 4,831 | #44 | 4.9 |
| 1914 | 3,814 | #42 | 5.0 |
| 1913 | 3,195 | #42 | 5.1 |
| 1912 | 2,825 | #44 | 5.1 |
| 1911 | 2,158 | #44 | 5.2 |
| 1910 | 2,074 | #49 | 5.2 |
| 1909 | 1,931 | #45 | 5.6 |
| 1908 | 1,749 | #50 | 5.2 |
| 1907 | 1,680 | #49 | 5.3 |
| 1906 | 1,603 | #48 | 5.4 |
| 1905 | 1,642 | #47 | 5.6 |
| 1904 | 1,426 | #49 | 5.2 |
| 1903 | 1,447 | #48 | 5.5 |
| 1902 | 1,501 | #46 | 5.7 |
| 1901 | 1,362 | #46 | 5.7 |
| 1900 | 1,766 | #46 | 5.9 |
| 1899 | 1,297 | #47 | 5.6 |
| 1898 | 1,462 | #45 | 5.6 |
| 1897 | 1,380 | #45 | 5.9 |
| 1896 | 1,407 | #44 | 5.9 |
| 1895 | 1,380 | #45 | 5.9 |
| 1894 | 1,320 | #45 | 5.9 |
| 1893 | 1,367 | #40 | 6.4 |
| 1892 | 1,360 | #41 | 6.4 |
| 1891 | 1,200 | #43 | 6.5 |
| 1890 | 1,275 | #40 | 6.7 |
| 1889 | 1,201 | #40 | 6.7 |
| 1888 | 1,292 | #38 | 7.2 |
| 1887 | 1,043 | #39 | 7.1 |
| 1886 | 1,061 | #36 | 7.3 |
| 1885 | 1,062 | #32 | 8.0 |
| 1884 | 935 | #37 | 7.2 |
| 1883 | 875 | #34 | 7.8 |
| 1882 | 811 | #35 | 7.5 |
| 1881 | 737 | #30 | 8.0 |
| 1880 | 783 | #26 | 8.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Julia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Julia has been given almost only to girls: 1,743 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Julia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Julia, and how old are they?
311,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 477,993 Americans ever recorded as Julia. The median Julia alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 349,781 people named Julia (348,856 women and girls, 925 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 314,443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14,000 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 107,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Julia born?
The states with the most babies named Julia are California, Texas and Florida, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 253 | #117 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 231 | #138 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 155 | #111 | 1.0× |
| New York | 138 | #110 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 104 | #80 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #118 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 74 | #93 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 74 | #134 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 71 | #74 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 67 | #123 | 0.9× |
Where Julia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Julia is most over-represented in Connecticut: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Julia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,005,229 babies since 1880, Julia is the second most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,172 of their 2,526 babies (86%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Julia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Julia and names like it
- Compare Julia and JulieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJulia peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Julia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Julia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Julia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Julia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.