Julie

What Julie means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1958, with 18,215 babies; 308 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Julie?

US: Falling: down from #454 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1405 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1969, when 17,739 girls got the name (#12 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,218 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,071 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 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 MA (0.58 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.5 per 1,000 girls), KS (0.42 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Julie is #872 in the US and #1639 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 Julie 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

• Julia2,172 US · 190 E&W
• Jolie243 US · 20 E&W
• Jaylie20 US
• Jalia13 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 Julie

Girls

• Stephanie#557Feminine form of Stephen, meaning “crown, wreath”^*
• Danielle#549Feminine form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*
• Jacqueline#558Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #258 in 2015, #558 in 2025
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Simone#995Feminine form of Simon, meaning “sixpence coin”^*

For a brother

• Joe#991Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1936, with 8,023 babies; 230 in 2025
• Andre#368Form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Austin#113“majestic”^*
• Harry#775Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1918, with 9,896 babies; 329 in 2025
• Louis#249“loud; famous + battle”^*
• Lewis#433Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*

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