girls:
471.7k births since 1880
#69 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1882
#2974 (35th percentile)
overall:
473.4k births since 1880
#139 (98th percentile)
The name Julia is the #139 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 473,406 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #69 (98.8% percentile) for all time with 471,662 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,974 (35.1% percentile) for all time with 1,744 births since 1882.
Julia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1882 for boys).
The name Julia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Julia reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 97.1% percentile (ranked #27) with 4,462 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 8,022 births per million (ranked 88.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Julia ranks #119 for girls (87.5% percentile) with 1,309 births per million, which is 16.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Julia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #701) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 138 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Julia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Julia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.4% confident that Julia is pronounced as JUE-lee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUEL-yuh, at 30.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH UW1 L IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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