The story in the numbers

510,948 girls have been named Julie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 18,213 births — 0.91% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 366 births in 2024, against 18,213 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 33%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 41 of them in the top 100 and 1 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,524 boys have also been given it, 0.30% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

By decade

Decade

girls named Julie

244

338

489

1,433

2,049

3,961

19,036

86,689

166,149

121,926

61,689

25,434

12,478

6,927

2,106

In 1958, its biggest year

Julie was the 23rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.

Names that rose and fell with Julie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.