Julian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the personal name Julian, from Latin Iulianus, a derivative of Julius, possibly based on Iuppiter “Jupiter”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xulian/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Julian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 46th most common given name.
- COColombia≈1 in 358(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 749
- ATAustria≈1 in 768
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #543 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 563 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 358 (inferred from the name graph)
193,591 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From the personal name Julian, from Latin Iulianus, a derivative of Julius, possibly based on Iuppiter “Jupiter”.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Julian, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Julian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #499 | 193,591 | 1 in 1.7K | 190K | Julian | 563 |
| CO Colombia | #46 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 358 | 8 | Julian | 236 |
| DE Germany | #214 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Julian | 273 |
| ES Spain | #95 | 59,313 | 1 in 843 | 62K | Julian | 201 |
| AR Argentina | #209 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | 4.5K | Julian | 185 |
| PL Poland | — | 45,069 | 1 in 849 | 45K | Julian | 5 |
| PE Peru | #151 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 749 | — | Julian | 80 |
| AT Austria | #131 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 768 | 19K | Julian | 129 |
193,591 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Julian 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.
In English, from Latin Julianus/Juliana, from Julius; first attested Julian de Horbelinghe Hy 2 Gilb (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, From Latin Julianus, derivative of Julius, a Roman family name.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
English (common in Devon and Cornwall), Spanish (Julian), and German: from a personal name, Latin lulianus, a derivative of lulius (see Julius), which was borne by a number of early saints. In Middle English the name was borne in the same form by women, whence the modem girl’s name Gillian.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, and German: from a medieval given name (L lulianus, a deriv. of lulius; see Julio), which had been borne by a number of early saints. In ME the name was borne in the same form by women, whence the mod. girl’s name Gillian.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, The Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus or Julian the Philosopher or Julian the Apostate.
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)
- Rudolf Clausiusb. 1822DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
- Groucho Marxb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian (1890–1977)
- J. Robert Oppenheimerb. 1904USnot in their usual nameAmerican theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
- Julius Axelrodb. 1912USnot in their usual nameAmerican biochemist (1912–2004)
- Julian Schwingerb. 1918USAmerican theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
- Julius Nyerereb. 1922TZnot in their usual nameTanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
- Julian Barnesb. 1946GBEnglish writer (born 1946)
- Julius Maada Biob. 1964SLnot in their usual namePresident of Sierra Leone since 2018
- Mats Hummelsb. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (born 1988)
- Julian Draxlerb. 1993DEGerman association football player
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 140 sources across 67 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 190K | #286 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 62K | #67 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 59K | #152 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 45K | #98 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 43K | #99 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 19K | #20 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 4.5K | #23 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #286 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 1.9K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 662 | — |
Reference works 9
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Julian a male or female name?
- Julian 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 Julian?
- In the etymology graph, Julien, Julius and Xiao are forms of the same name in other languages; Jules and Jools are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Julian mean, and where does it come from?
- From the personal name Julian, from Latin Iulianus, a derivative of Julius, possibly based on Iuppiter “Jupiter”. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Julian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 194 thousand people named Julian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled julian.
- How do you pronounce Julian?
- A machine transcription gives /xulian/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Julian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193,591 people named Julian in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Julian compared with other names?
- In the United States, Julian is the 499th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/julianThe 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, “Julian” — the 499th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.