Żuliana
Just 11 women in Poland carry it, and no newborn girl has been given it since the records start in 2000. A rare respelling of Juliana, from the Latin for the Julian family.
Żuliana Pronunciation
Żuliana is pronounced zhool-YAH-nah (/ʐulˈjana/).
What Żuliana means
Where Żuliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żuliana starts in Latin, in the adjective Iulianus, meaning of the gens Iulia, the Julian family of Rome. The short sense follows from that: youthful, belonging to the line of the Juliuses. The spelling with Ż is Polish phonetics doing its work, catching the soft sound that the more common forms write with J.
Those common forms sit close by. Juliana is the standard variant, Julianna doubles the n, and Julian is the masculine form a brother might carry. A girl named Żuliana shares a root with all of them while wearing a spelling that stands out on a class register.
The Julian family name itself traces back to Iulus, the legendary son of Aeneas, which is how Rome tied the gens Iulia to Troy. So the meaning youthful and the family sense are one thing, not two. To belong to the Iulii was to belong to that named house.
A teacher reading roll call will pause once at the Ż, then move on. The name is short. What stays fixed under the spelling is the Latin origin: Iulianus, of the Julian family.
How many people are named Żuliana
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Żuliana. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15705 among female names.