Yuli
A rare name in Poland: fewer than 70 people carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and it belongs to women and men alike. A Greek form of Julia, at root meaning "youthful, full of vigor".
Yuli Pronunciation
Yuli is pronounced ih-OO-lee (/ɨˈuli/).
What Yuli means
Where Yuli comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yuli grows out of Julia and keeps the same root. Julia comes from the Roman family name Julius, and one old etymology ties that name to the Greek ioulos, the first soft down on a young face. From there comes the reading of Yuli as youthful, młoda i pełna wigoru.
The name found a second home in Jewish and Hebrew usage, where Yuli works as a plain, everyday given name. Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, for years a Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, holds it as his first name. The form crosses genders. It answers for a woman and for a man alike.
In Poland the fuller Julia stands behind it, with Julka and Jula as the diminutives that soften it further. Picture a school register: a formal Julia in the roll, Yuli as the name the class actually calls out. The short vowels move fast, which suits a name that means young and full of vigour, back down to that Greek ioulos.
How many people are named Yuli
1 in 402568 women in Poland is named Yuli. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4378 among female names.