girls:
410 births since 1888
#5306 (7th percentile)
boys:
83k births since 1880
#351 (92nd percentile)
overall:
83.4k births since 1880
#774 (90th percentile)
The name Julius is the #774 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,405 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #351 (92.4% percentile) for all time with 82,995 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,306 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 410 births since 1888.
Julius has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1888 for girls).
The name Julius has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Julius reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 78.7% percentile (ranked #108) with 1,545 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 1,679 births per million (ranked 74.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Julius ranks #372 for boys (59.2% percentile) with 432 births per million, which is 25.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Julius reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #596) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Julius".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Julius. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Julius is pronounced as JUE-lee-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUEL-yuhs, at 25.0% 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 S) 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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