Jules
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form of Julius, from Latin Iulius, a Roman family name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒyl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jules is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 43rd most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 739(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.2K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 361 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 739 (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French form of Julius, from Latin Iulius, a Roman family name.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jules 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #193 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 173K | Jules | 361 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #76 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Jules | 26 |
| CM Cameroon | #43 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 739 | — | Jules | 44 |
| US United States | — | 8,010 | 1 in 42K | 5.7K | Jules | 338 |
| BE Belgium | #126 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 15 | Jules | 117 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 2.9K | Jules | 67 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Jules is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
, now sometimes also Q French form of pJulius. It is a very common given name in France and is occasionally used in the Englishspeaking world, where it is also fairly common as an informal pet form of Julian and pJulie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, from a personal name (Latin Julius). The name was home in the Middle Ages in honor of various minor Christian saints.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, patronymic or metronymic from a short form of Julian.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From Latin pJulius (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, a male given name, equivalent to English Julius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Julius IIb. 1443ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
- Julius IIIb. 1487ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555
- Charles Lucien Bonaparteb. 1803FRnot in their usual nameFrench noble, biologist, politician and art collector (1803–1857)
- Théophile Gautierb. 1811FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
- Jules Verneb. 1828FRFrench writer (1828–1905)
- Jules Ferryb. 1832FRFrench politician (1832-1893)
- Jules Bastien-Lepageb. 1848FRFrench painter (1848–1884)
- Jules Ernest Séraphin Valentin Rimetb. 1873FRfounder of association football institutions (1873–1956)
- Alfred Jules Ayerb. 1910GBEnglish philosopher
- Jules Albert Wijdenboschb. 1941SRSurinamese politician
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 102 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 173K | #8 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.7K | #2,873 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2.9K | #1,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #2,873 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 181 | #5,784 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 131 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2001 | 20 | #2,068 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2023 | 7 | #1,047 |
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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Jules a male or female name?
- Jules 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 are other forms of the name Jules?
- In the etymology graph, Xiao, Giulio and Julek are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Julian and Jolyon.
- What does the name Jules mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Julius, from Latin Iulius, a Roman family name. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Jules have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Jules in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jules.
- How do you pronounce Jules?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒyl/ (IPA) for French.
- How common is the name Jules?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,010 people named Jules in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Jules compared with other names?
- In France, Jules is the 193rd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/julesThe 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, “Jules” — the 193rd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.