Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
Origin: PolishJulian is a common male given name in the United States, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Russia [Iulian] Spain, Latin America, Iulian in Romanian and elsewhere.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Julian yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Julian is at its best-ever rank right now: #30 in 2024, exactly matching its peak, with a birth count that's held nearly flat over the past decade — down just 4% — one of the smallest ten-year swings covered in this batch.
This name appears in every US decade of data from 1880 onward, and its raw-count peak came in 2017 at 8,451 births — a gentle decline since, to 7,368 in 2024, rather than any sharp drop.
The famous-bearer list runs from 19th-century polish nobility-adjacent naming through to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Nobel physicist Julian Schwinger — a spread across politics, science, and literature (Julian Barnes) that doesn't lean toward any single decade the way Camila's or Dylan's lists do.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 32 | #296 |
| 1881 | 36 | #264 |
| 1882 | 41 | #269 |
| 1883 | 48 | #227 |
| 1884 | 48 | #249 |
| 1885 | 49 | #236 |
| 1886 | 50 | #240 |
| 1887 | 40 | #251 |
| 1888 | 47 | #257 |
| 1889 | 49 | #231 |
| 1890 | 63 | #209 |
| 1891 | 43 | #244 |
| 1892 | 52 | #248 |
| 1893 | 68 | #206 |
| 1894 | 53 | #238 |
| 1895 | 55 | #240 |
| 1896 | 57 | #241 |
| 1897 | 53 | #240 |
| 1898 | 69 | #209 |
| 1899 | 45 | #250 |
| 1900 | 79 | #226 |
| 1901 | 66 | #210 |
| 1902 | 62 | #229 |
| 1903 | 59 | #237 |
| 1904 | 65 | #236 |
| 1905 | 78 | #216 |
| 1906 | 102 | #176 |
| 1907 | 92 | #209 |
| 1908 | 88 | #221 |
| 1909 | 102 | #210 |
| 1910 | 129 | #201 |
| 1911 | 152 | #199 |
| 1912 | 294 | #197 |
| 1913 | 360 | #187 |
| 1914 | 449 | #189 |
| 1915 | 579 | #191 |
| 1916 | 625 | #187 |
| 1917 | 652 | #186 |
| 1918 | 724 | #182 |
| 1919 | 686 | #186 |
| 1920 | 693 | #195 |
| 1921 | 765 | #182 |
| 1922 | 773 | #181 |
| 1923 | 673 | #201 |
| 1924 | 728 | #193 |
| 1925 | 716 | #195 |
| 1926 | 703 | #199 |
| 1927 | 621 | #214 |
| 1928 | 633 | #212 |
| 1929 | 592 | #214 |
| 1930 | 592 | #219 |
| 1931 | 502 | #235 |
| 1932 | 559 | #217 |
| 1933 | 455 | #244 |
| 1934 | 474 | #241 |
| 1935 | 497 | #235 |
| 1936 | 449 | #248 |
| 1937 | 449 | #253 |
| 1938 | 425 | #266 |
| 1939 | 458 | #252 |
| 1940 | 510 | #238 |
| 1941 | 501 | #248 |
| 1942 | 530 | #249 |
| 1943 | 554 | #253 |
| 1944 | 457 | #278 |
| 1945 | 462 | #280 |
| 1946 | 523 | #280 |
| 1947 | 552 | #295 |
| 1948 | 533 | #299 |
| 1949 | 535 | #292 |
| 1950 | 505 | #302 |
| 1951 | 492 | #315 |
| 1952 | 521 | #312 |
| 1953 | 520 | #315 |
| 1954 | 494 | #329 |
| 1955 | 470 | #339 |
| 1956 | 450 | #348 |
| 1957 | 454 | #357 |
| 1958 | 460 | #358 |
| 1959 | 463 | #365 |
| 1960 | 491 | #353 |
| 1961 | 525 | #344 |
| 1962 | 478 | #365 |
| 1963 | 471 | #360 |
| 1964 | 507 | #349 |
| 1965 | 461 | #353 |
| 1966 | 453 | #353 |
| 1967 | 452 | #351 |
| 1968 | 472 | #355 |
| 1969 | 525 | #344 |
| 1970 | 635 | #309 |
| 1971 | 645 | #303 |
| 1972 | 624 | #296 |
| 1973 | 716 | #264 |
| 1974 | 650 | #288 |
| 1975 | 744 | #262 |
| 1976 | 735 | #264 |
| 1977 | 745 | #266 |
| 1978 | 644 | #293 |
| 1979 | 663 | #301 |
| 1980 | 753 | #280 |
| 1981 | 869 | #252 |
| 1982 | 993 | #235 |
| 1983 | 933 | #241 |
| 1984 | 938 | #237 |
| 1985 | 1,529 | #174 |
| 1986 | 1,545 | #172 |
| 1987 | 1,492 | #183 |
| 1988 | 1,672 | #167 |
| 1989 | 2,210 | #138 |
| 1990 | 2,700 | #123 |
| 1991 | 2,690 | #122 |
| 1992 | 2,548 | #134 |
| 1993 | 2,490 | #135 |
| 1994 | 2,505 | #140 |
| 1995 | 2,703 | #132 |
| 1996 | 2,858 | #129 |
| 1997 | 2,911 | #131 |
| 1998 | 3,053 | #124 |
| 1999 | 3,218 | #111 |
| 2000 | 4,590 | #87 |
| 2001 | 4,944 | #82 |
| 2002 | 5,223 | #78 |
| 2003 | 5,410 | #77 |
| 2004 | 5,673 | #74 |
| 2005 | 6,116 | #74 |
| 2006 | 6,797 | #65 |
| 2007 | 6,781 | #66 |
| 2008 | 7,468 | #61 |
| 2009 | 7,387 | #62 |
| 2010 | 7,588 | #53 |
| 2011 | 7,627 | #50 |
| 2012 | 7,388 | #53 |
| 2013 | 7,519 | #47 |
| 2014 | 7,686 | #47 |
| 2015 | 8,061 | #45 |
| 2016 | 8,388 | #39 |
| 2017 | 8,451 | #37 |
| 2018 | 8,367 | #36 |
| 2019 | 8,441 | #31 |
| 2020 | 7,551 | #34 |
| 2021 | 7,685 | #33 |
| 2022 | 7,301 | #35 |
| 2023 | 7,091 | #33 |
| 2024 | 7,368 | #30 |
