Iuliia
The Ukrainian spelling of Julia, carried by around 2,600 women in Poland and given to no newborn girls last year. A Latin name at root, meaning "youthful", though most Poles have never met anyone who writes it this way.
Iuliia Pronunciation
Iuliia is pronounced YOOLY-yah (/ˈjuljja/).
What Iuliia means
Where Iuliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iuliia comes from the Latin gens Iulia, the Roman clan name that also gave the world Julius. On a Polish page it works as a spelling of the Ukrainian Юлія, carried across the border by families who wanted the sound of home to survive the move. The nearest Polish form is Julia, and the everyday diminutives run to Julka and Jula.
The Latin root points toward youth, and the meaning set down here is "youthful," młodzieńcza. That sense may have attached to the old family name long after Rome, when Julius had become a title more than a household. The masculine counterpart, Juliusz, keeps the same ancestry.
Picture a September class register in a Polish school: three girls named Julia, and one Iuliia. Teachers learn to read it on the first day. The name settles quickly. What stays visible is the extra vowel, the Ukrainian shape of a name whose Latin root still means young.
How many people are named Iuliia
1 in 8741 women in Poland is named Iuliia. 2,579 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #623 among female names.