Juliya
A spelling of Julia rooted in Latin, where the name means "youthful". Only 38 women in Poland carry this form, so most people here have never met one.
Juliya Pronunciation
Juliya is pronounced yool-YIH-ah (/julˈjɨa/).
What Juliya means
Where Juliya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Juliya begins in Latin, in the Roman family name Iulius. Scholars connect that name to a root meaning youthful, and the sense passed into Polish as młoda, młodzieńcza. The spelling Juliya reached Polish through Russian and Ukrainian, where Yuliya has long been a common name.
Around it sits a small family of forms. Julia is the plain variant. Julka and Jula are the diminutives a friend reaches for. The masculine side gives Julek and Juliusz, close cousins built from the same Roman root.
Picture a school register in a Polish classroom. Juliya can sit a line above Julia, near enough to be mistaken for it, spelled just differently enough to hold its own. That single y marks the Russian and Ukrainian road the name took. The root under all of it still means youthful.
How many people are named Juliya
1 in 593259 women in Poland is named Juliya. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6354 among female names.