Uliiana
A Ukrainian spelling that barely exists in Poland: just six women carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. The root is Latin, from a name meaning "youthful".
Uliiana Pronunciation
Uliiana is pronounced ooly-YAH-nah (/uljˈjana/).
What Uliiana means
Where Uliiana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uliiana comes from Latin, from the Roman family name Iulius and its feminine Iuliana. Ancient writers tied that family to iuvenis, the word for young, and that link gives the name its sense of "youthful." When the name moved east, Slavic speakers reshaped Iuliana into Uliana and dropped the opening sound. Uliiana is a Ukrainian spelling of that same name.
The Orthodox calendar carried it forward. Juliana of Nicomedia, martyred around the early fourth century, kept the older form in the church books, while the shorter Uliana took hold across Ukraine.
Picture a class register in a Polish school, Uliiana written between Ula and Zofia. The name reads as foreign and clear at once. Its root still points back to the Latin iuvenis, and to youth.
How many people are named Uliiana
1 in 3757306 women in Poland is named Uliiana. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24418 among female names.