Giulia
Feminine · “of the Julian family”
Giulia is the Italian spelling of a name Rome has been saying for well over two thousand years, and the one Verona's own storytellers used when they wrote Giulietta into the tale Shakespeare would later borrow. The g here is soft — the whole word runs together, JOO-lya, two syllables that arrive almost like one. It travels well: a familiar name in an unfamiliar coat.
How old is the name Giulia?
Giulia first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Giulia is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,700 people named Giulia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Giulia most popular?
Giulia peaked in 2022, reaching #1062 nationally. Today it ranks #1139, 77 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Giulia appears on these lists:
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Works in French and Italian families too:
Where it comes from
From Iulius to Giulia
The story of Giulia
The gens Iulia was a Roman family of the Republic, and every daughter born into it was simply called Iulia. From that clan name Latin Iulia passed into every language Rome touched, softening in Italian to Giulia, where the initial g before i is pronounced like the j in jam. Italian writers of the sixteenth century gave the diminutive Giulietta to the heroine of a Veronese love story that Shakespeare turned into Juliet. The Italian spelling reached American records in the mid-twentieth century and has been climbing since, most strongly in states with deep Italian-American roots.
Meaningscholars disagree
of the Julian family — the Roman clan name Julius
Giulia comes straight from Latin Iulia, the feminine of Iulius, the name of one of Rome's oldest patrician families. Beyond that the trail splits. The Romans themselves traced the clan to Iulus, son of Aeneas, and so ultimately to Jupiter; a separate line of scholarship connects Iulius to Greek ioulos, the first soft down of a young beard. Both readings are seriously held, and neither has closed the question.
How the name formed
- Iulius
- Iulia
- Giulia
Related forms: Julia · Julie · Júlia · Yulia · Giulietta · Giuliana
Pronouncing Giulia
JOO-lya
In Italian the g before i is soft, so it sounds like Julia, with the last two syllables run together into one. English speakers meeting it in print often try a hard g — gee-OO-lee-a — so expect to offer the correction now and then.
Nicknames for Giulia
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 2022239 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1062reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +9.1%203 in 2025, from 186
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Giulia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Julia in English — same name
- Julie in French — same name
- Júlia in Portuguese / Hungarian — spelling variant
- Yulia in Russian — transliteration
- Giulietta in Italian — related form
- Giuliana in Spanish / Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, New York, California. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Giulias among us
people named Giulia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 7,918 born in 2025 was named Giulia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jaedyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Giulia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jaedyn climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jaedyn's path sketches the road Giulia is walking now.
Giulia is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Giulia is headed
Giulia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Giulia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Giulia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Julia, a name virtually every English speaker already knows, so it needs no explaining once spoken aloud.
- An unbroken line back to the Roman Republic, with forms in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Hungarian.
- Charts in France as well as the US, and remains a mainstay in Italy — it crosses borders without being reshaped.
- Comes with ready-made short forms in real use: Giuli, Gigi, Lia, and the older diminutive Giulietta.
- Rare enough in American classrooms that a Giulia is unlikely to share the name with anyone she meets at school.
- The spelling will be a lifelong small task. People who know only Julia will write it that way, and some will read the g as hard until told otherwise.
- Its rise here is recent, so most American Giulias are still young. There is little sense yet of how the name wears on an adult in this country — though Italy has plenty of grown Giulias to answer that.
- Alfa Romeo has used Giulia as a model name for decades. It is a mild association, familiar mostly to car enthusiasts, and it has not slowed the name down.
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Frequently asked
- How many Giulias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,700 people named Giulia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Giulia in 2025?
- Giulia ranks #1139 among US girl names in 2025, with 203 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Giulia?
- About 1 in every 7,918 US girls born in 2025 was named Giulia — 203 in all.
- Will my child share the name Giulia with classmates?
- Giulia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Giulia
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US figures from the Social Security Administration; international figures from national statistics agencies. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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