Julius

What Julius means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #424 vs #976 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Julius?

US: Falling: down from #311 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #903 in 2015, #976 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1910, when 350 boys got the name (#95 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,250 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,772 baby boys in England and Wales 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 RI (1.6 per 1,000 boys), NM (1.38 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.11 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Julius is #424 in the US and #976 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Julius were boys.

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

• Julious5 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 Julius

Boys

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*

For a sister

• Stella#52“star”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 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 Julius’s. Rank is US 2025.