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How popular is “Julian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Julian” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Julian” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Julian” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Julian” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Julian” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Julian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Julian” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 32 0.000158822 32 -100%
1881 36 0.000186831 36 -100%
1882 41 0.000185074 41 -100%
1883 48 0.000221253 48 -100%
1884 48 0.000197157 48 -100%
1885 49 0.000203443 49 -100%
1886 50 0.000195836 50 -100%
1887 40 0.000161687 40 -100%
1888 47 0.000156942 47 -100%
1889 49 0.000169582 49 -100%
1890 71 0.000235567 8 63 -77%
1891 48 0.000167438 5 43 -79%
1892 52 0.000155514 52 -100%
1893 68 0.000209087 68 -100%
1894 53 0.000156485 53 -100%
1895 55 0.000156686 55 -100%
1896 62 0.000173434 5 57 -84%
1897 53 0.000152757 53 -100%
1898 76 0.000199237 7 69 -82%
1899 51 0.000150339 6 45 -76%
1900 86 0.000191002 7 79 -84%
1901 66 0.000190855 66 -100%
1902 62 0.000160317 62 -100%
1903 59 0.000154774 59 -100%
1904 71 0.000175967 6 65 -83%
1905 78 0.000183996 78 -100%
1906 108 0.000252071 6 102 -89%
1907 100 0.000214874 8 92 -84%
1908 95 0.000194414 7 88 -85%
1909 113 0.000221038 11 102 -81%
1910 134 0.000226845 5 129 -93%
1911 159 0.000246788 7 152 -91%
1912 301 0.000304637 7 294 -95%
1913 366 0.000321869 6 360 -97%
1914 462 0.000326192 13 449 -94%
1915 592 0.000323069 13 579 -96%
1916 644 0.000332917 19 625 -94%
1917 665 0.000331382 13 652 -96%
1918 737 0.000339458 13 724 -96%
1919 706 0.000334558 20 686 -94%
1920 713 0.000315118 20 693 -94%
1921 780 0.000334118 15 765 -96%
1922 786 0.000343358 13 773 -97%
1923 688 0.000298808 15 673 -96%
1924 739 0.000310294 11 728 -97%
1925 739 0.000316719 23 716 -94%
1926 727 0.000316651 24 703 -93%
1927 643 0.000277232 22 621 -93%
1928 652 0.000288376 19 633 -94%
1929 611 0.00027872 19 592 -94%
1930 609 0.000273919 17 592 -94%
1931 510 0.000242351 8 502 -97%
1932 571 0.000270451 12 559 -96%
1933 461 0.000230564 6 455 -97%
1934 480 0.000231123 6 474 -98%
1935 504 0.00024116 7 497 -97%
1936 461 0.000221893 12 449 -95%
1937 460 0.000215895 11 449 -95%
1938 432 0.000195248 7 425 -97%
1939 466 0.000211487 8 458 -97%
1940 517 0.000224521 7 510 -97%
1941 512 0.000210144 11 501 -96%
1942 536 0.000196206 6 530 -98%
1943 565 0.000200173 11 554 -96%
1944 469 0.000174344 12 457 -95%
1945 477 0.000179803 15 462 -94%
1946 530 0.000165868 7 523 -97%
1947 563 0.000156288 11 552 -96%
1948 540 0.000156408 7 533 -97%
1949 545 0.000156395 10 535 -96%
1950 517 0.000147573 12 505 -95%
1951 500 0.000135732 8 492 -97%
1952 529 0.000139284 8 521 -97%
1953 528 0.000137013 8 520 -97%
1954 503 0.000126359 9 494 -96%
1955 479 0.0001193 9 470 -96%
1956 456 0.000110598 6 450 -97%
1957 463 0.000110182 9 454 -96%
1958 470 0.000113694 10 460 -96%
1959 471 0.000113276 8 463 -97%
1960 499 0.000120131 8 491 -97%
1961 541 0.000130604 16 525 -94%
1962 489 0.000121178 11 478 -96%
1963 483 0.000122025 12 471 -95%
1964 519 0.000133501 12 507 -95%
1965 470 0.000129639 9 461 -96%
1966 463 0.000133212 10 453 -96%
1967 465 0.00013697 13 452 -94%
1968 488 0.000144447 16 472 -93%
1969 544 0.000156532 19 525 -93%
1970 647 0.000179398 12 635 -96%
1971 653 0.000190248 8 645 -98%
1972 639 0.000203309 15 624 -95%
1973 735 0.000243629 19 716 -95%
1974 667 0.000219408 17 650 -95%
1975 758 0.000251044 14 744 -96%
1976 753 0.000248163 18 735 -95%
1977 765 0.000240832 20 745 -95%
1978 663 0.000208893 19 644 -94%
1979 678 0.000203787 15 663 -96%
1980 783 0.000227319 30 753 -92%
1981 906 0.000261897 37 869 -92%
1982 1044 0.000297609 51 993 -90%
1983 971 0.000280365 38 933 -92%
1984 978 0.000280329 40 938 -92%
1985 1577 0.000441847 48 1529 -94%
1986 1598 0.000449245 53 1545 -93%
1987 1549 0.000429608 57 1492 -93%
1988 1733 0.000469007 61 1672 -93%
1989 2272 0.000590982 62 2210 -95%
1990 2769 0.000700573 69 2700 -95%
1991 2744 0.000704445 54 2690 -96%
1992 2609 0.000679202 61 2548 -95%
1993 2550 0.000676343 60 2490 -95%
1994 2554 0.000686993 49 2505 -96%
1995 2761 0.000753928 58 2703 -96%
1996 2926 0.00080226 68 2858 -95%
1997 2992 0.000825209 81 2911 -95%
1998 3137 0.000852861 84 3053 -95%
1999 3296 0.00089229 78 3218 -95%
2000 4694 0.001241831 104 4590 -96%
2001 5028 0.001343168 84 4944 -97%
2002 5297 0.001416958 74 5223 -97%
2003 5474 0.001439648 64 5410 -98%
2004 5742 0.001502778 69 5673 -98%
2005 6194 0.001610988 78 6116 -97%
2006 6866 0.001735509 69 6797 -98%
2007 6849 0.001713242 68 6781 -98%
2008 7531 0.001915961 63 7468 -98%
2009 7434 0.001945984 47 7387 -99%
2010 7642 0.002067787 54 7588 -99%
2011 7662 0.002094706 35 7627 -99%
2012 7426 0.002030422 38 7388 -99%
2013 7560 0.002073695 41 7519 -99%
2014 7717 0.002082088 31 7686 -99%
2015 8087 0.002185137 26 8061 -99%
2016 8433 0.002298636 45 8388 -99%
2017 8473 0.002369278 22 8451 -99%
2018 8402 0.002389717 35 8367 -99%
2019 8473 0.00244113 32 8441 -99%
2020 7585 0.002270566 34 7551 -99%
2021 7715 0.002277189 30 7685 -99%
2022 7330 0.00216663 29 7301 -99%
2023 7111 0.002147562 20 7091 -99%
2024 7386 0.002219017 18 7368 -100%

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