girls:
1.9k births since 1987
#3889 (32nd percentile)
boys:
9.2k births since 1880
#1233 (73rd percentile)
overall:
11.1k births since 1880
#2499 (68th percentile)
The name Jules is the #2,499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,075 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 67.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,233 (73.1% percentile) for all time with 9,160 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,889 (31.9% percentile) for all time with 1,915 births since 1987.
Jules has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1987 for girls).
The name Jules has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 58.2% of babies named Jules were boys.
For boys, Jules reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 26.6% percentile (ranked #399) with 135 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 195 births per million (ranked 14.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jules ranks #809 for boys (11.2% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 30.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jules reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #842) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 59 births per million (ranked 11.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jules ranks #875 for girls (7.6% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 74.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jules".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jules. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jules is pronounced as juelz, which has 1 syllables.
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