Yuliya
A Latin name that came into Polish through Russian and Ukrainian use, glossed as "youthful". You'd remember meeting one: it sits inside the top 500 but is given less often now than a typical name today.
Yuliya Pronunciation
Yuliya is pronounced ih-ool-YIH-ah (/ɨulˈjɨa/).
What Yuliya means
Where Yuliya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yuliya traces back to the Latin Iulius, the Roman clan name behind Julius Caesar and the month of July. Its root leans toward a word for youth, which is how the short meaning came to rest on youthful, młoda and promienista in Polish. The origin is Latin.
In Russian and Ukrainian speech the name kept its own shape, holding the soft first vowel that Polish rounds down into Julia. That variant is the form an official at the urząd would copy onto a document. Among friends the name loosens into Julka, or shorter still into Jula.
The sense of youthfulness was never a promise about anyone's character. It attached to the name later, through the Latin family line and the season named after it. Girls called Yuliya have carried it across borders where the spelling shifted but the youthful meaning held, from Julia on the page to the quick Jula of a diminutive.
How many people are named Yuliya
1 in 4344 women in Poland is named Yuliya. 5,190 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #479 among female names.
Yuliya's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Yuliya as a middle name
Yuliya is a first name for 5,190 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4494th, between Yolima (4) and Zahara (4).
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#4492 Yohanna4
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#4493 Yolima4
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#4494 Yuliya4
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#4495 Zahara4
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#4496 Zahraa4