# Juliana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/juliana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Gillian |
| US babies named this | 67,797 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 49 / 67,748 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 609, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Middle English Juliana, from Latin Iūliāna.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,130 | 147 |
| 2012 | 2,219 | 147 |
| 2013 | 2,097 | 151 |
| 2014 | 2,062 | 159 |
| 2015 | 1,905 | 168 |
| 2016 | 1,952 | 163 |
| 2017 | 2,003 | 147 |
| 2018 | 1,853 | 152 |
| 2019 | 1,654 | 175 |
| 2020 | 1,524 | 189 |
| 2021 | 1,434 | 209 |
| 2022 | 1,364 | 219 |
| 2023 | 1,244 | 251 |
| 2024 | 1,270 | 252 |
| 2025 | 1,203 | 256 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 9 | 4,406 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,770 |
| 1985 | 9 | 4,507 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,259 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,439 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,554 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,335 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,499 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,374 |
| 2012 | 24 | 1,342 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,587 |
| 2014 | 23 | 1,367 |
| 2015 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,416 |
| 2017 | 30 | 1,144 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,436 |
| 2019 | 40 | 897 |
| 2020 | 16 | 1,773 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 29 | 1,142 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2,115 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,892 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Juliane
- Finnish: Juliana, Juliaana
- French: Julienne
- German: Juliane
- Hungarian: Julianna
- Italian: Giuliana
- Polish: Juliana
- Portuguese: Juliana
- Romanian: Iuliana
- Russian: Юлиа́на
- Spanish: Juliana

## People named Juliana

- Juliana Pasha, Albanian singer
- Juliana Paes, Brazilian actress
- Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
- Juliana Harkavy, American actress
- Juliana Awada, First Lady of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
- Juliana Donald, American actress
- Juliana of Stolberg, German countess (1506–1580)
- Juliana Knust, Brazilian actress
- Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt, Countess of East Frisia
- Juliana Silva, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- Juliana Berners, English prioress and author
- India Juliana, 16th-century Guaraní rebel from early-colonial Paraguay.

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.