Giuliana
Just 57 women in Poland carry Giuliana, so meeting one would stay with you. An Italian name from Latin, it means "youthful".
Giuliana Pronunciation
Giuliana is pronounced gyool-YAH-nah (/gjulˈjana/).
What Giuliana means
Where Giuliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Giuliana grew from Latin. Behind it stands Iulianus, an adjective formed from the Roman family name Iulius. The gens Iulia was one of Rome's older houses, and ancient writers traced it to Iulus, the son of Aeneas. They tied the name itself to iuvenis, the Latin word for young. That link gave Giuliana its sense of the youthful.
Italy kept the name close. Giuliana is the Italian feminine of Giuliano, and it belongs to a line of saints and towns. Santa Giuliana di Nicomedia, an early martyr honoured on 16 February, carried the older Latin form Iuliana. Her cult spread across the peninsula, and parishes from Umbria to Sicily still mark her day.
In Poland the name arrives without diminutives of its own. A teacher reading a class register meets it plain, Giuliana, with no Kasia to shorten it. The meaning stays legible under the sound. Under those syllables sits the old Latin adjective, młody, young.
How many people are named Giuliana
1 in 395506 women in Poland is named Giuliana. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4915 among female names.
Giuliana as a middle name
Giuliana is a first name for 57 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3255th, between Gita (6) and Giusy (6).
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#3253 Gerlinde6
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#3254 Gita6
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#3255 Giuliana6
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#3256 Giusy6
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#3257 Glory6