Julius
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Latin; possibly 'youthful'; born in July
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒuɫjəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Julius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 419(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 600
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 980
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 469 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Roman family name Iulius, which is possibly derived from the Greek 'ioulos' (ἴουλος), meaning 'downy-bearded,' or related to the Latin 'Iovilius,' meaning 'devoted to Jove' (Jupiter).
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Julius is read(measured from records)
Julius is one spelling over 4 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.
- English58%
Latin; possibly 'youthful'; born in July
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- Swahili16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Julius in Swahili.
- Spanish7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Julius in Spanish.
- German5.9%
Latinized surname in -ius; from Julius. Bearer count: 527. Demonstrates humanist Latinization (morphological transposition).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Latinized surname in -ius; NL/BE/LU counts 99/0/0.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Julius 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #264 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Julius | 103 |
| PH Philippines | #232 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 980 | — | Julius | 150 |
| TZ Tanzania | #364 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 600 | — | Julius | 39 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 588 | — | Julius | 41 |
| US United States | #756 | 40,007 | 1 in 8.3K | 40K | Julius | 469 |
| FI Finland | — | 11,996 | 1 in 464 | 15K | Julius | 29 |
| LT Lithuania | #110 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 419 | listed | Julius | 117 |
| IS Iceland | — | 368 | 1 in 953 | 368 | — | 2 |
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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the lt-vlkk-vardai register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Julius is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the Roman family name Iulius, which is possibly derived from the Greek 'ioulos' (ἴουλος), meaning 'downy-bearded,' or related to the Latin 'Iovilius,' meaning 'devoted to Jove' (Jupiter).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In grc, Greek/East African: 'soft-haired and downy-bearded'; popular in East Africa.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Latin, from the praenomen Iulus/Julus; -ius formation
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Rudolf Clausiusb. 1822DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
- Heinrich Schliemannb. 1822USnot in their usual nameGerman businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
- Ferdinand Cohnb. 1828PLnot in their usual nameGerman biologist (1828-1898)
- Jean Sibeliusb. 1865FInot in their usual nameFinnish composer (1865–1957)
- Groucho Marxb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian (1890–1977)
- Julius Fučíkb. 1903CZCzech journalist and revolutionary (1903–1943)
- J. Robert Oppenheimerb. 1904USnot in their usual nameAmerican theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
- Julius Axelrodb. 1912USAmerican biochemist (1912–2004)
- Julius Nyerereb. 1922TZTanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
- Julius Maada Biob. 1964SLPresident of Sierra Leone since 2018
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 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,050 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15K | #149 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 12K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 759 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 155 | #1,050 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 34 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #10,802 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 17 | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Julius come from?
- From the Roman family name Iulius, which is possibly derived from the Greek 'ioulos' (ἴουλος), meaning 'downy-bearded,' or related to the Latin 'Iovilius,' meaning 'devoted to Jove' (Jupiter). Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Julius a male or female name?
- Julius is a male 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.
- What does the name Julius mean?
- In English, Latin; possibly 'youthful'; born in July
- What are other forms of the name Julius?
- In the etymology graph, Julio, Jill and Julian are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Julius have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Julius in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled julius.
- How common is the name Julius?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,007 people named Julius in 2020, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Julius compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Julius is the 264th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Julius?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒuɫjəs/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juliusThe 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, “Julius” — the 264th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.