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Julien: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 380 in 2025. Its best rank was #533 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #533 in 2009; #709 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Julien in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#709 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #533.
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Julien: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 380 boys in 2025. Peak: #533 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 500 (2009).
In 2025, 380 US boys were named Julien, making it the 709th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #701 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 384 boys named Julien in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #533, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 500. For comparison, it was #625 in 2015 and #2,153 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Julien in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 14,032 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,361 babies named Julien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,306 US boys were named Julien; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 478. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,495 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Julien ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #471 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Julian (268,291 babies since 1880), Julius (85,038 babies since 1880), Jules (11,467 babies since 1880) and Juliann (7,540 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Julien in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 10 | #471 | #447 |
| Virginia | 16 | #482 | #603 |
| New York | 34 | #485 | #433 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #493 | — |
| Florida | 35 | #512 | #526 |
| Washington | 14 | #516 | #619 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #535 | #319 |
| California | 53 | #568 | #449 |
| Colorado | 8 | #651 | #655 |
| Arizona | 10 | #656 | #697 |
| Maryland | 7 | #658 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #687 | #439 |
| Michigan | 11 | #694 | #577 |
| Ohio | 12 | #730 | #672 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #740 | #1,060 |
| Utah | 5 | #750 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #799 | #351 |
| Alabama | 5 | #815 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #828 | #784 |
| Texas | 32 | #836 | #867 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,039 | #953 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,388 | #625 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,755 | 380 | #709 |
| 2024 | — | — | 384 | #701 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,078 | 432 | #639 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,330 | 415 | #660 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,285 | 450 | #618 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,222 | 472 | #586 |
| 2019 | — | — | 436 | #622 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,803 | 478 | #580 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,062 | 420 | #622 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,275 | 439 | #612 |
| 2015 | — | — | 428 | #625 |
| 2014 | — | — | 380 | #672 |
| 2013 | — | — | 400 | #620 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,117 | 441 | #582 |
| 2011 | — | — | 463 | #549 |
| 2010 | — | — | 453 | #559 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,393 | 500 | #533 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,153 | 478 | #552 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,198 | 432 | #589 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,273 | 415 | #593 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,333 | 341 | #638 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,008 | 336 | #630 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,073 | 322 | #639 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,132 | 330 | #608 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,953 | 292 | #639 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,972 | 288 | #637 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,113 | 208 | #768 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,757 | 200 | #781 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,380 | 188 | #790 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,986 | 200 | #751 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,434 | 172 | #818 |
| 1994 | — | — | 140 | #929 |
| 1993 | — | — | 144 | #890 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,066 | 148 | #869 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,147 | 159 | #820 |
| 1990 | — | — | 119 | #954 |
| 1989 | — | — | 89 | #1,123 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,714 | 84 | #1,085 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,123 | 57 | #1,304 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,056 | 51 | #1,394 |
| 1985 | — | — | 69 | #1,117 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,559 | 39 | #1,565 |
| 1983 | — | — | 26 | #2,050 |
| 1982 | — | — | 42 | #1,502 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,713 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,933 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,970 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,327 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,513 |
| 1976 | — | — | 22 | #2,143 |
| 1975 | — | — | 30 | #1,683 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,956 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,358 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,062 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,745 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,249 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,958 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,238 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,391 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,693 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,328 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,765 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,466 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,513 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,375 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,801 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,577 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,406 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,880 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,936 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,161 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,616 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,606 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,941 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,153 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,528 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,273 |
| 1947 | — | — | 14 | #2,118 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,479 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #1,976 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,255 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,327 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,267 |
| 1940 | — | — | 21 | #1,501 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,118 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,353 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,043 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,688 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,191 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,817 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,044 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,812 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,966 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,238 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,259 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,458 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,353 |
| 1926 | — | — | 22 | #1,632 |
| 1925 | — | — | 28 | #1,407 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,092 |
| 1923 | — | — | 30 | #1,344 |
| 1922 | — | — | 19 | #1,853 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,896 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,618 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,556 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,796 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,563 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,897 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,836 |
| 1914 | — | — | 18 | #1,466 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,878 |
| 1912 | — | — | 12 | #1,480 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,877 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,147 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #971 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #987 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).