Yulii
Just 125 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it since at least 2000: most Poles have never met one. Latin at root, tied to the Julian family, with a sense of youth and a first downy beard.
Yulii Pronunciation
Yulii is pronounced ih-OOL-yee (/ɨˈulji/).
What Yulii means
Where Yulii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yulii comes from the Latin Julius, the name of an old Roman clan. The Julii traced their line to Iulus, son of Aeneas, and Roman writers tied the name to iuvenis, the word for a young man. That link left a trace in the short meaning: youthful, downy-bearded, the first soft growth on a boy's face.
The form itself is Ukrainian. Yulii renders Юлій, the eastern way of saying Julius, and it keeps the same Latin bone underneath. Polish holds that root in plain sight, glossing the name as należący do rodu juliuszów, belonging to the clan of the Juliuszes.
Picture the name on a class register in a Polish school. Yulii sits a line away from Juliusz, the two of them cousins by a long Roman road. A child answering to it answers to something older than Rome's emperors.
The meaning stays close to the body. Not power, not glory. A young face, downy-bearded, at the start of its growing.
How many people are named Yulii
1 in 170770 men in Poland is named Yulii. 125 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3009 among male names.