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Julen

#11,301 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Iulianus

Julen has been given to 344 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #11,301 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Julen, 2025

1 in 553,000

Julen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Julen: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Iulianus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Julen means

Julen is a form of Iulianus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Julen is used in Basque.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈju.len/ for Julen.

Origin, language, and formation

Julen comes through Spanish Julián.

Julen is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iulianus and Julian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Julen is pronounced /ɟulen/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 344 boys were recorded with the name Julen between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,243 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,618 in 2020 to #11,301 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,289 in 2015 to #11,301 in 2025.

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 Julen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,301
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Julen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Julen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Julens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Julen was born before 2018 — so the typical Julen is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
344
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Choose a decade

2020s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Julen 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
−6,150
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,683
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,012
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.2%
Peak was 2022 (37)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,243
2022

Spellings of Julen

Julen is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 22.9% against Julen's 0.02%.

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 Julen is used

Across 1910–2025, Julen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 695,835 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Julen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Julen around the world

Where Julen 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1982–2025
    #3,331
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Julen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,301
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,683
Best rank ever
#3,243
2022
Peak year
2022
37 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
344
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Julen

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

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Sibling names for Julen

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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