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The first name 
Julie

Julie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Julie – popular and common in the US

The name Julie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Julie ranks 475. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Julie. In total, there are currently 504,939 people – children, adults and seniors – named Julie living in the United States, which is approximately 0.15 % of the entire population.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Julie

What does the name 
Julie mean?

Julie is a variant of Julia, which comes from the Roman family name Julius meaning ‘downy-bearded’ or ‘dedicated to Jupiter’. Julie is commonly used in French, Danish, Norwegian and Czech.

In the early 20th century,.. Julie came to be known in English-speaking countries and has since risen in popularity. In the U.S., it was especially popular in the 1960s.

Julie -
very popular in the 20th century

Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Julie is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Julie for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Julie is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Julie is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 11 Julie easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1970.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Julie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Julie -
at home all over the USA, especially popular in Iowa

Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Julie. Because: There are women and girls named Julie in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Julie is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Minnesota, where Julie ranks on place 15. The greatest chance of meeting Julie, however, is in Iowa, where one in 142 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 305 women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 694 women and girls for their name before you once get Julie as an answer.

Julie has 5 letters 
and begins with a J

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.

With five letters, the name Julie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.

Other names with 
J, u, l, i and e

If you take all the letters in the name Julie – J, u, l, i and e – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Juile.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Julie

If your name is Julie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Julie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Julie, you can simply say:

Joker

Unicorn

Lion

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Julie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Julie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Julie

Julie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Julie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Julie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
U
L
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Julie

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

J
U
L
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Julie sounds like this: