Julia

What Julia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Julia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2001, with 8,838 babies; 2,172 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Julia?

US: Falling: down from #89 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #86 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 783 girls got the name (#26 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 740 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,333 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 663 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (3.96 per 1,000 girls), HI (3.73 per 1,000 girls), AK (3.02 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Julia is #131 in the US and #244 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Julia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Julie308 US · 18 E&W
• Jolie243 US · 20 E&W
• Jaliah22 US
• Jaleia17 US
• Jalia13 US
• Jalaia8 US
• Jahlia8 US
• Jalea7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Julia

Girls

• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Emily#34“rival, emulator”^*
• Adriana#366Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #366 vs #951 in 2025
• Carolina#405Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #405 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Lauren#401Same root as Laurence, possibly meaning “laurel”^*

For a brother

• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Victor#209“conqueror”^*
• Anthony#46“flower”^*
• Quentin#965“fifth”^*
• Justin#233“just”^*
• Marcus#258Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Julia’s. Rank is US 2025.