Julien — #703 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Julien

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,403 babies named Julien between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Julien currently holds the #703 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 500 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Julien performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,337 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Julien shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,058 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Julien in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Julien 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 13,403 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.