girls:
510.6k births since 1880
#62 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1912
#3130 (32nd percentile)
overall:
512.1k births since 1880
#128 (98th percentile)
The name Julie is the #128 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 512,100 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #62 (98.9% percentile) for all time with 510,576 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,130 (31.7% percentile) for all time with 1,524 births since 1912.
Julie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1912 for boys).
The name Julie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Julie reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 98.8% percentile (ranked #10) with 8,744 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 10,062 births per million (ranked 98.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1970, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Julie ranks #576 for girls (39.2% percentile) with 228 births per million, which is 2.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Julie reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #601) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 35 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Julie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Julie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Julie is pronounced as JUE-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH UW1 L IY0) 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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