Julie
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Pet form of Juliet, now sometimes independent and increasingly popular
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒuɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Julie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Australia it is the 45th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 268(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 301
- AUAustralia≈1 in 321
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #172 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 641 (measured from records)
- 1 in 268 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ג'ולי in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Juliet, now sometimes independent and increasingly popular.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Julie is read(measured from records)
Julie is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English75%
Pet form of Juliet, now sometimes independent and increasingly popular.
as a nameIrish first names
possibly for the month-name July; compare Averill . Further information: Other surnames apparently derived from month-names have different or ambiguous origins; see for example January . Some early spellings similar to July in SW England may represent a locative name from Uley (Gloucs).
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Julie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 483 | — | Julie | 70 |
| US United States | #79 | 467,484 | 1 in 712 | 467K | Julie | 641 |
| GB United Kingdom | #51 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 301 | 6 | Julie | 363 |
| FR France | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 311 | 215K | ג'ולי | 21 |
| PH Philippines | #88 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 602 | — | Julie | 164 |
| AU Australia | #45 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 321 | 79 | Julie | 317 |
| BE Belgium | #191 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 366 | 1.7K | Julie | 166 |
| DK Denmark | #83 | 21,912 | 1 in 268 | 22K | Julie | 183 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Julie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French form of Julia. This was imported to the English-speaking world in the 1920s, and for some reason has become enormously popular. Its popularity was increased in the 1960s by the fame of the actresses Julie Harris (b. 1925), Julie Andrews (b. 1935 as Julia Wells), and Julie Christie (b. 1940).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
A pet form of Juliet, now sometimes used as an independent name, and becoming increasingly popular.
as a nameIrish first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Julie Claryb. 1771FRQueen consort of Naples and Spain (1771-1845)
- Louise of Hesse-Kasselb. 1817DEnot in their usual namequeen consort of Denmark from 1863 to 1898
- Julie Andrewsb. 1935GBBritish actress, singer and author (born 1935)
- Julie Christieb. 1940GBBritish actress
- Julie Kavnerb. 1950USAmerican actress
- Julianne Mooreb. 1960USnot in their usual nameBritish-American actress and author
- Paula Abdulb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality
- Julie Payetteb. 1963CA29th governor general of Canada, former CSA Astronaut (born 1963)
- Julie Delpyb. 1969FRFrench and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer
- Julie Benzb. 1972USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 122 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 467K | #97 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 215K | #291 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22K | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 421 | #97 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 308 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2015 | 155 | #44 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 112 | #65 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1987 | 79 | #93 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1987 | 35 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Julie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of Juliet, now sometimes independent and increasingly popular. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Julie?
- In the etymology graph, Julia, Julieta and Lili are forms of the same name in other languages; Juliette, Juliet and Jools are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Julie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Julie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled julie.
- Where is Julie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Julie is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 268 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- Is Julie a male or female name?
- Julie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Julie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒuɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Julie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 467,484 people named Julie in 2020, about 1 in 712 residents.
- How common is Julie compared with other names?
- In Australia, Julie is the 45th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/julieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Julie” — the 45th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.