Żulieta
Just nine women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been named it since at least 2000: most Poles have never met one. A Latin name at root, a spelling of Julieta, tied to the sense of being young and full of life.
Żulieta Pronunciation
Żulieta is pronounced zhool-YE-tah (/ʐulˈjɛta/).
What Żulieta means
Where Żulieta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żulieta reaches back to Latin. The name grows from the Roman family name Iulia, borne across the ancient Roman world. Roman scholars tied Iulius to iuvenis, their word for a young person, and from that link came the reading of youthful.
The spelling żulieta is Polish through and through. That opening ż fixes the sound the Polish way, where a form like Julia or Julieta might leave it open. On a school register the teacher reads it without stumbling, and the ż marks the name as spelled for Polish ears.
The short meaning stays close to the Latin. Youthful, in Polish młoda i pełna życia. The origin is Latin. That sense of young was read into the name long after the Roman family carried it, so it works as a later gloss rather than a first cause. A child called Żulieta holds a name whose root is the Latin word for young.
How many people are named Żulieta
1 in 2504870 women in Poland is named Żulieta. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18224 among female names.