girls:
422 births since 1923
#5294 (7th percentile)
boys:
62.8k births since 1888
#421 (91st percentile)
overall:
63.3k births since 1888
#928 (88th percentile)
The name Julio is the #928 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 63,269 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 88.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #421 (90.8% percentile) for all time with 62,847 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,294 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 422 births since 1923.
Julio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1923 for girls). Birth data for Julio is available in 123 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (123 years for boys and 46 years for girls). 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 Julio has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Julio reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 75.3% percentile (ranked #191) with 722 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 735 births per million (ranked 74.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Julio ranks #494 for boys (45.8% percentile) with 278 births per million, which is 37.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Julio reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #810) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Julio".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Julio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.1% confident that Julio is pronounced as HUE-lee-oh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUE-lee-oh, at 47.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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