Julie
Meaning
“French form of Julia, from the Roman family name Julius”
Famously borne by World Cup winners Julie Foudy and Julie Ertz.
The story
Julie is the French form of Julia, the ancient Roman family name, and mid-century America fell for it completely, choosing the Parisian ending over the Latin one by a wide margin. Present from the 1890s, it surged after the war to a commanding peak across the 1960s and 1970s, the very years Julie Andrews owned both the nanny's umbrella and the Alpine hillsides, and Julies filled every classroom in the country. The slide since has been long and gentle, no crash, just fashion moving on. Today the name sits in the vintage waiting room alongside Linda and Susan, one fashionable generation away from rediscovery, its easy French polish intact, and its data-backed parent Juliana still offers the formal version whenever a bearer wants more name to grow into.
The formal names behind Julie
Julie is an established short form of this name.
Juliana · Latin origin · youthful; famously borne by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Julie peaked in the 1960s and the 1970s in nearly equal measure.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
7,264 people · the #2,116 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 27,778 · median age 20
Among people named Julie living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1990s as in the 2000s, more than in any other decade.
The census also counted 628 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Julie
People given the name Julie in the United States span the generations: the middle half were born anywhere from 1960 to 1989. Age is the one thing the name won't tell you.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Julie deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Julie truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Julie fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Julie travels
Korean American · A familiar English choice in Korean American families.
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