Ulliana
Barely eight people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never crossed paths with one. Latin at root, tied to the Julian family and its old sense of "youthful", and a rare spelling of Uliana.
Ulliana Pronunciation
Ulliana is pronounced ooll-YAH-nah (/ullˈjana/).
What Ulliana means
Where Ulliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ulliana grows from Latin soil. Behind it stands the Roman family name Julius, borne by the gens Julia, and older still the sense of "youthful" that Roman grammarians tied to the word for a young person. So the short meaning, "from the line of the Juliuses," points back to a clan rather than a trait. The youthfulness came with the family, not the girl.
The variant uliana walks beside it with one letter shed. Both keep the soft roll of the Latin ending, the same shape you hear in Juliana and Julia.
Read out at a Polish class register, Ulliana sits among names that reach the same Roman root by different roads. The doubled l is the rare part. It marks the form on an official document without changing where the name began, which is Julius and the gens Julia.
How many people are named Ulliana
1 in 2817979 women in Poland is named Ulliana. 8 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #19664 among female names.