girls:
3.3k births since 1890
#3032 (47th percentile)
boys:
249.9k births since 1880
#147 (97th percentile)
overall:
253.2k births since 1880
#313 (96th percentile)
The name Julian is the #313 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 253,175 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #147 (96.8% percentile) for all time with 249,910 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,032 (46.9% percentile) for all time with 3,265 births since 1890.
Julian has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls).
The name Julian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Julian reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 96.7% percentile (ranked #31) with 4,391 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4,391 births per million (ranked 96.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Julian ranks #32 for boys (96.6% percentile) with 3,865 births per million, which is 88.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Julian reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #798) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 52 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Julian ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 21.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Julian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Julian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.0% confident that Julian is pronounced as JUE-lee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUEL-yuhn, at 17.0% 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 N) 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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