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Jule

Recorded 1881–2024 · United States

Jule was most popular in 1918, when 81 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,468 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,406 people named Jule.

Most popular in1918
Rank that year#1,468
Births that year81
Total since 18803,406
Given to59% girls
Alive today~1,000
Median age65

Jule over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Jule’s peak in 1918. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Jule?

Jule first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 134 of the 145 years since.

How many people are named Jule?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,406 American births named Jule between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,232 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Jule in 2025?

Jule was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Jule getting more or less popular?

Jule is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Jule a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Jule is a unisex name — 58.7% of the 3,406 Americans given it were girls and 41.3% were boys. It changed hands: since 1955 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 56% girls and 44% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Jule?

Roughly 1,232 Americans named Jule are alive today — 36% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 65 years old, and half are between 44 and 76. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Jule is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org