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Jule

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Possibly downy first beard hairs, through Julius

Jule has been given to 3,406 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 54 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.

Babies named Jule, 2021

1 in 484,000

Jule over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jule over time

In 2024, Jule went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jule: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly downy first beard hairs, through Julius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jule means

Jule belongs to the name family reached through Jule → Julius. Its meaning is “downy first beard hairs”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jule is used in English and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Julius, Juliane and Julia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Jule is pronounced /ˈjuːlə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,998 girls were recorded with the name Jule between 1886 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1919; its best national rank was #820 in 1891.

In the United States, 1,408 boys were recorded with the name Jule between 1881 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1922; its best national rank was #557 in 1893.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jule?

Jule had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jule sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jule. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jules were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jule was born before 1935 — so the typical Jule is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
18.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
682
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1910s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (359).

Is Jule rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (54)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#820
1891

Spellings of Jule

Jule is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 18.1% against Jule's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jule is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Jule was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 97,385 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jule has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Jule is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jule was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 453,552 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jule has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jule around the world

Where Jule ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1944–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jule by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#820
1891
Peak year
1919
54 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,998
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#557
1893
Peak year
1922
35 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,408
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jule

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jule

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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