Iulian
From Latin, the family name Iulius, read for centuries as "of Julius" and carrying a plainer sense too: young. It stays rare in Poland, around 240 men, and the variant Julian is the one you'll meet far more often.
Iulian Pronunciation
Iulian is pronounced YOOL-yahn (/ˈjuljan/).
What Iulian means
Where Iulian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iulian comes from Latin, from the family name Iulius that Rome knew long before it became a first name. The word behind it points to something youthful, and Iulian was read for centuries as "of Julius," a mark of belonging to that old line. In Polish the short sense is młody, young.
The name traveled well. It kept its Roman shape in Romanian, where Iulian stays common, while Polish speakers reach more often for the variant Julian. Saint Julian the Hospitaller gave the name a place in the church calendar, and the female form Julianna sits beside it.
Read a school register in Poland and you may find a Julian two rows from a Julianna. Both trace back to that one Latin root. The meaning stays plain: młody, youthful, of Julius.
How many people are named Iulian
1 in 89690 men in Poland is named Iulian. 238 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2011 among male names.
Iulian as a middle name
Iulian is a first name for 238 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1560th, between Holger (29) and Jurij (29).
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#1558 Halil29
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#1559 Holger29
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#1560 Iulian29
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#1561 Jurij29
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#1562 Ketut29