How Many People Are Named Julia?
people named Julia are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,089 people in the US has this name
Based on 477,993 babies named Julia in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
8,849 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Feminine form of the Roman family name JULIUS. Among the notable women from this family were Julia Augusta (also known as Livia Drusilla), the wife of Emperor Augustus, and Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus and the wife of Tiberius. A person by this name has a brief mention in the New Testament. It was also borne by a few early saints and martyrs, including the patron saint of Corsica. Additionally, Shakespeare used it in his comedy 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' (1594).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Julia (99.7%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Julia alive today is about 37 years old, and 48% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 56 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Julia first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2001, to 8,849 babies. In 2025, 2,172 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Julia never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #26, in 1880, and it was in the top 100 in 100 years between 1880 and 2019. In 2025 it ranked #131.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #131 |
| Best rank | #26 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | 100 (1880 to 2019) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #30 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Julia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Julia were born in California than in any other state: about 34,776 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Julia was given about 1.6 times as often in Connecticut, District of Columbia and Delaware.
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