Giulia
An Italian name from the Latin for "youthful". Only about 700 women in Poland carry it, and it keeps fading: not one newborn girl got it last year.
Giulia Pronunciation
Giulia is pronounced GYOOL-yah (/ˈgjulja/).
What Giulia means
Where Giulia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Giulia is the Italian form of a name that reaches back to Roman Latin. It belongs to the gens Iulia, the family line that gave Rome its Julii, and behind it stands the Latin word iuvenis, young. The short meaning carried into Polish is młoda, youthful.
The Romans traced the Julian name to Iulus, the son of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid, which is a legend rather than a settled etymology. What linguists agree on is the root of youth. Over centuries the feminine Julia passed through Italian mouths and softened into Giulia, with its opening g and its three light syllables.
In Italy it has stayed a common choice for generations. A Polish reader tends to meet it on a Giulia in a class register, an Italian classmate whose name the teacher pronounces with care. It keeps its Italian shape here. Poland has Julia, and Giulia stays the visitor.
The meaning holds steady. Giulia says youthful, młoda, a word rooted in Latin iuvenis.
How many people are named Giulia
1 in 32625 women in Poland is named Giulia. 691 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1129 among female names.
Giulia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Giulia is most popular
Giulia is most popular in Lesser Poland, 429% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+279%) and Pomeranian (+226%).
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Lesser Poland5 girls born+429%
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Łódź2 girls born+279%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+226%
Giulia as a middle name
Giulia is a first name for 691 women in Poland and a middle name for another 68, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 815th, between Gaia (68) and Hiacenta (68).
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#813 Felicia68
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#814 Gaia68
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#815 Giulia68
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#816 Hiacenta68
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#817 Lubomiła68