Yulia
A Russian and Ukrainian spelling of Julia, from a Latin root meaning youthful. Barely a thousand women in Poland carry it and fewer arrive each year, so meeting one stays memorable.
Yulia Pronunciation
Yulia is pronounced ih-OOL-yah (/ɨˈulja/).
What Yulia means
Where Yulia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yulia comes from Latin, from the Roman family name Julius, borne by the gens Julia. That family claimed descent from Iulus, a son of Aeneas in Roman legend. Behind the name sits the word iulus, the soft down of a young plant or a boy's first beard. That root gives the short meaning: youthful and downy.
In Russian and Ukrainian the name settled as Yulia, written Юлия or Юлія depending on the country. It shares a stem with Julia, the variant Polish readers know best. Same source, two spellings.
Young is the sense Polish keeps: młoda. Picture a Ukrainian girl named Yulia on a school class register in a Polish town, her name older than any empire that once used it. The downy softness of iulus still sits under the letters.
How many people are named Yulia
1 in 22277 women in Poland is named Yulia. 1,012 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #960 among female names.
Yulia's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Yulia is most popular
Yulia is most popular in Pomeranian, 633% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+402%).
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Pomeranian2 girls born+633%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+402%
Yulia as a middle name
Yulia is a first name for 1,012 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2677th, between Yoko (9) and Zarina (9).
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2675
9Yanet
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2676
9Yoko
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26779Yulia
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2678
9Zarina
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2679
9Zula