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Juliusz

A Latin name carrying the sense of youthfulness. Fewer than 9,000 Poles have it, all of them men and boys, so meeting one tends to stay with you.

Juliusz Pronunciation

Juliusz is pronounced YOOL-yoosh (/ˈjuljuʂ/).

Alive in 2025
8,933
Newborns 2025
212
National rank
#377
Next name day
12 April
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What Juliusz means

Where Juliusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Juliusz descends from the Latin Iulius, the family name of an old Roman clan. The Polish gloss says it plainly: należący do rodu juliuszów, belonging to the house of the Juliuszes. The origin is Roman. Long before it became a given name, it was a surname passed down a bloodline.

The English sense "downy-bearded" or "youthful" arrived later, from an old guess that tied Iulius to the Latin iulus, the soft first down on a young face. Scholars treat that link as folk etymology rather than fact. Still, it stuck, and it lends Juliusz a note of early youth.

Poland knows the name best through Juliusz Słowacki, the Romantic poet born in 1809. His fame carried the name onto school registers and imieniny cards for generations. Around it stand the related forms: the variant Julius, the variant Julian, and the cross-gender Julia.

When Juliusz celebrates name day

Juliusz appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 12 April.

Next name day
12 April
Monday in 2027
Next one in 214 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Juliusz

1 in 2390 men in Poland is named Juliusz. 8,933 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #377 among male names.

People with the name Juliusz 2019 → 2025
8,933 +909 since 2019
2020 8,133 +109
2021 8,332 +199
2022 8,490 +158
2023 8,648 +158
2024 8,799 +151
2025 8,933 +134

Juliusz's popularity over time

212 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #177 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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212 newborns with the name Juliusz in 2025
national rank #177 that year

Where Juliusz is most popular

Juliusz is most popular in Masovian, 57% above the national average (436 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+47%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+39%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Opole, 61% and 56% below average respectively.

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Juliusz as a middle name

Juliusz is a first name for 8,933 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6,681, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 119th, between Florian (7,166) and Augustyn (6,663).

As a first name
8,933
As a middle name
6,681
first name 57% middle name 43%
Middle-name ranking men

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