Julian — #30 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Julian

The Social Security Administration has registered 257,331 babies named Julian between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Julian currently holds the #30 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 8,451 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Julian performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 79,516 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Julian shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 54,374 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Julian in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Julian 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 257,331 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.