July
July is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,672 among girls’ names and #6,266 among boys’, #7,787 among all names counting both); 1,133 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named July and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of July by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does July mean?
Wiktionary, English section
July is “a female given name from English.” Its etymology gives the sense “descended from Jove” (*Iovilios,).
From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar’s month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, “descended from Jove”.
/d͡ʒəˈlaɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is July?
#6,672 among girls’ names, 2025
July fell from #5,203 in 2015 to #6,672 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 10.6 per million.
40 babies in 2020, the peak
July peaked in 2020, when 40 babies were given it (28 girls, #4,690 among girls’ names). The 31 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 78% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,672 | 14 | #6,266 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,270 | 14 | #6,320 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,074 | 12 | #7,088 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,716 | 14 | #6,302 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,826 | 13 | #6,492 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,690 | 12 | #6,805 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,171 | 21 | #4,700 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,135 | 8 | #9,201 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,156 | 13 | #6,481 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,884 | 13 | #6,514 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,203 | 12 | #6,873 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,700 | 8 | #9,194 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,556 | 7 | #10,177 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,993 | 9 | #8,493 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,876 | 8 | #9,166 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,869 | 10 | #7,847 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,674 | 12 | #7,017 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,150 | 9 | #8,647 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,829 | 7 | #10,311 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,015 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,115 | 5 | #12,329 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,471 | 7 | #9,431 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,757 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,523 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,172 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,402 | 5 | #11,257 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,854 | 6 | #9,275 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,558 | 5 | #10,435 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,730 | 8 | #6,925 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,527 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,759 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,850 | 8 | #6,668 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,804 | 6 | #8,126 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,355 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,073 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,151 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,397 | 8 | #5,910 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,746 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,311 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,826 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,491 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,697 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,978 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,132 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,076 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,681 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,559 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,710 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,128 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,865 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,296 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,844 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,757 | 5 | #5,469 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,179 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,935 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,041 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,854 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,502 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,121 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,345 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,058 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,177 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is July a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,133 Americans recorded as July, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named July: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named July, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,133 Americans ever recorded as July. The median July alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,444 people named July (2,016 women and girls, 428 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 927 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 209 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 324 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 410 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,004,811 babies since 1880, July is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 2,526 babies (1.2%), the third 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 July
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 July and names like it
- Compare July and JulieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJuly peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named July since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for July: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named July.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named July alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.