Julita
From Greek, with a fitting sense: "youthful". It saw more use in the 2000s and has thinned out since, down to 55 newborn girls last year, enough that meeting a Julita now sticks in the memory.
Julita Pronunciation
Julita is pronounced yoo-LEE-tah (/juˈlita/).
What Julita means
Where Julita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Julita comes from Greek, from a root tied to the sense of youthfulness. In Polish the meaning lands as młoda, young. The name points to the opening of a life rather than its later stretches.
Older documents favour the fuller form Julitta, and that spelling still turns up in church calendars. Saint Julitta of Tarsus was a widow martyred around the year 305, remembered together with her small son Cyricus, and the Catholic calendar keeps her on 16 June. Her story carried the name into Christian Europe well before it grew common in Poland.
Everyday Polish softens it further. A girl christened Julita becomes Julka on the class register and among her friends. That is the version they will use for years, while the birth certificate holds the older name. The origin stays Greek, and the meaning stays young.
When Julita celebrates name day
Julita appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 30 July.
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 Julita
1 in 1030 women in Poland is named Julita. 21,891 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #266 among female names.
Julita's popularity over time
55 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #338 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #266 name among living women, even as it slips to #338 among newborns.
Where Julita is most popular
Julita is most popular in Subcarpathian, 152% above the national average (100 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+100%) and Podlaskie (+62%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and West Pomeranian, 56% and 50% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian100 girls born+152%
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Lesser Poland149 girls born+100%
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Podlaskie35 girls born+62%
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Lublin36 girls born+7%
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Opole13 girls born−14%
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Silesian64 girls born−15%
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Łódź35 girls born−16%
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Lower Silesian40 girls born−23%
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Warmian-Masurian18 girls born−24%
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Greater Poland53 girls born−25%
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Pomeranian34 girls born−30%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian25 girls born−31%
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Lubusz11 girls born−33%
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Masovian76 girls born−35%
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West Pomeranian14 girls born−50%
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Świętokrzyskie8 girls born−56%
Julita as a middle name
Julita is a first name for 21,891 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5,638, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 140th, between Wacława (5,683) and Paula (5,627).
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#138 Aurelia5,694
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#139 Wacława5,683
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#140 Julita5,638
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#141 Paula5,627
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#142 Eleonora5,540