Julia
From Latin, with the sense of youthful. More than 300,000 women in Poland carry it and nearly everyone knows one, though it's given to fewer newborns each year now than at its 2000s peak.
Julia Pronunciation
Julia is pronounced YOOL-yah (/ˈjulja/).
What Julia means
Where Julia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Julia is a Latin name, the feminine of the Roman clan name Julius. The gens Julia traced itself back to Iulus, son of Aeneas, and the root has long been tied to the sense of youthful. Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, married Pompey, and her death loosened one of the bonds holding the late Republic together.
The name traveled because Rome traveled. Saint Julia of Corsica, a martyr venerated since the early Middle Ages, carried it into the Christian calendar, which is why Poland still keeps her a spring name-day. Shakespeare gave a Julia to Two Gentlemen of Verona before he gave the world Juliet, and Juliette survives now as the French variant many Polish readers recognize.
In a Polish class register the name shortens fast. Julka answers to roll call. Jula is the diminutive a friend uses. The Polish reading holds two senses at once, młoda and promienista, young and radiant. Youthful is the older one, from Latin.
When Julia celebrates name day
Julia appears 9 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 8 April.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Julia
1 in 72 women in Poland is named Julia. 311,209 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #33 among female names.
Julia's popularity over time
3,207 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #16 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Julia is most popular
Julia is given fairly evenly across Poland, with no strong regional preference. It leans slightly toward Świętokrzyskie (16% above the national average) and is least common in Pomeranian (14% below).
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Świętokrzyskie1,114 girls born+16%
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Subcarpathian2,352 girls born+13%
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Podlaskie1,248 girls born+10%
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Lesser Poland4,286 girls born+9%
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Łódź2,399 girls born+9%
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Silesian4,040 girls born+3%
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Opole814 girls born+2%
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Lublin1,795 girls born+1%
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Masovian6,069 girls born−1%
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West Pomeranian1,440 girls born−1%
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Lower Silesian2,611 girls born−4%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian1,804 girls born−5%
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Lubusz793 girls born−8%
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Warmian-Masurian1,133 girls born−9%
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Greater Poland3,284 girls born−12%
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Pomeranian2,186 girls born−14%
Julia as a middle name
Julia is a first name for 311,209 women in Poland and a middle name for another 86,163, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 33rd, between Halina (86,369) and Iwona (83,745).
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31
86,785Alicja
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32
86,369Halina
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3386,163Julia
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34
83,745Iwona
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35
81,382Agata