girls:
2k births since 1886
#3824 (33rd percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1881
#3230 (30th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1881
#4690 (39th percentile)
The name Jule is the #4,690 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,399 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 39.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,824 (33.1% percentile) for all time with 1,998 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #3,230 (29.5% percentile) for all time with 1,401 births since 1881.
Jule first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1886 for girls). Birth data for Jule is available in 133 out of the 141 years between 1881 and 2021 (124 years for girls and 106 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jule has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (58.8% of all recorded births). In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Jule were girls. Interestingly, until around 1898, the name was more popular for boys (62.4% boys from 1881 to 1897), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (60.2% girls from 1898 to 2021).
For girls, Jule reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 8.3% percentile (ranked #529) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 61 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Jule reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #516) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 111 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jule".
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