Juley

Girls' name

Diminutive of Julia

Juley has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1970, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Juley, 1978

1 in 529,000

Juley over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Juley: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Julia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Juley means

Juley is a diminutive of Julia.

Origin, language, and formation

Juley is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Julia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Juley between 1957 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1970; its best national rank was #4,118 in 1962.

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 Juley?

Juley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Juley 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 1978 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 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Juley was born before 1968 — so the typical Juley is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
75
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Juley 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (13)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,118
1962

Spellings of Juley

Juley is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 25.1% against Juley's <0.01%.

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.

Juley around the world

Where Juley 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
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

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

Juley 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
#4,118
1962
Peak year
1970
13 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Juley

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

Sibling names for Juley

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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