Julianna
From Latin, carrying the sense of "youthful". Around 7,000 Polish women have it, and the name is slipping: fewer newborn girls take it now than a decade back, and meeting one stays memorable.
Julianna Pronunciation
Julianna is pronounced yool-YAHN-nah (/julˈjanna/).
What Julianna means
Where Julianna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Julianna comes from the Latin Iulianus, a name built on the old Roman family name Iulius. From that root grows the sense the name still holds: youthful, in Polish młoda, pełna życia. Its masculine variants, Julian and the older Iulian, stand right beside it as the same word wearing a different ending.
One of the earliest women to carry a form of it was Saint Juliana of Nicomedia, an early Christian martyr honoured across medieval Europe. Through her, Juliana and its fuller Polish shape, Julianna, travelled into the calendars and christening records of Poland.
The name still moves easily. On a Polish class register, Julianna will often sit a few lines from a Julia, the shorter cousin who shares the same Latin family. What separates them is mostly length, since both trace back to Iulius and the plain meaning underneath: youthful.
How many people are named Julianna
1 in 3192 women in Poland is named Julianna. 7,062 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #427 among female names.
Julianna's popularity over time
62 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #314 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Julianna is most popular
Julianna is most popular in Pomeranian, 61% above the national average (70 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+42%) and Podlaskie (+29%). It is least common in Opole and Warmian-Masurian, 71% and 62% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian70 girls born+61%
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Greater Poland90 girls born+42%
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Podlaskie25 girls born+29%
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Masovian131 girls born+26%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian33 girls born+3%
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Silesian66 girls born−1%
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West Pomeranian24 girls born−3%
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Lower Silesian42 girls born−9%
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Łódź32 girls born−14%
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Lesser Poland53 girls born−21%
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Lublin22 girls born−27%
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Lubusz10 girls born−32%
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Świętokrzyskie10 girls born−39%
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Subcarpathian16 girls born−55%
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Warmian-Masurian8 girls born−62%
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Opole4 girls born−71%
Julianna as a middle name
Julianna is a first name for 7,062 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6,567, a 52/48 split — almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 130th, between Żaneta (6,576) and Nadia (6,556).
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128
6,754Izabella
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129
6,576Żaneta
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1306,567Julianna
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131
6,556Nadia
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132
6,539Liliana