In 2025, 308 US girls were named Julie, making it the 873rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 110 places from #763 in 2024. That is 61 fewer than the 369 girls named Julie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #10, reached in 1971. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18,215, in 1958. For comparison, it was #454 in 2015 and #111 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Julie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 22 babies with the name. In all, 512,777 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 166,539 babies named Julie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,668 US girls were named Julie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 650. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,218 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Julie ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #410 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Julia (477,993 babies since 1880), Juliette (40,986 babies since 1880), Jolie (14,099 babies since 1880) and Julieta (11,689 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joli, July and Jullie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jule, Jules and Julia.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.