Julie
- Pronunciation
- [Ju-lie]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Youthful: Jove's Child. A Feminine Of Julian.
- Origin
- French
About the Name Julie
Julie is the French and English short form of Julia/Juliana (see separate entry on Julia for the Latin Iulia etymology — the feminine form of the Roman family name Iulius, famously associated with Julius Caesar). The French Julie has been used continuously across French-Catholic naming traditions for centuries.
Notable bearers include the iconic British actress Julie Andrews (Julia Elizabeth Wells, born 1935, the iconic British actress whose career through Mary Poppins 1964 — for which she won the Best Actress Oscar — and The Sound of Music 1965 made her one of the foundational figures of mid-20th-century international film); American actress Julie Newmar (born 1933, the iconic American actress who played Catwoman on the 1960s ABC Batman); the iconic French filmmaker Julie Delpy (born 1969, the French actress of Before Sunrise); and the contemporary American singer-songwriter Julie Andrews.
Julie held a US top-25 girls' rank from 1956 through 1980 — about a quarter century of consistent American popularity, peaking around 1971 at #16 in the United States. The name has receded since but remains in steady use, currently sitting in the US top 300 girls' rank. The name's appeal is its layered Latin-French-Catholic-Hollywood pedigree combined with two firm syllables — the in-built Julia/Julius classical Roman pedigree, the strong Julie Andrews mid-20th-century international cultural anchor, and the elegant French sophistication. Two firm syllables, soft consonants, and the name reads as both classical-French and contemporary American. Common nicknames are scarce since Julie is itself a nickname-shape — Jules (back-end shortening, gender-neutral and casual), Juju, and the rare Lia each occasionally appear; the longer formal Julia, Juliet, Juliana, or Julianne are sometimes used as Julie's official-document version. International forms include Julia (Italian/Spanish/Portuguese), Juliette (French), Giulia (Italian), Julita (Polish), and the original Latin Iulia.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Julie
US Popularity History (1951–2025)
Annual US births named Julie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1958 with 18,213 girls named Julie (girl rank #23 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #873 for girls (308 US births). That's 850 places below its 1958 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Julie Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Julie the strongest states are Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connecticut | #416 | 22 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | #444 | 119 |
| 3 | Oregon | #488 | 23 |
| 4 | California | #495 | 712 |
| 5 | Nevada | #503 | 30 |
| 6 | New Jersey | #519 | 130 |
| 7 | Kansas | #553 | 18 |
| 8 | Arkansas | #559 | 23 |
| 9 | Utah | #570 | 44 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | #572 | 37 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Julie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
Famous People Named Julie
1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Julie.
- Julie Andrews — Movie Actress (1935)
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Compare Julie to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Julie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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