Yulia
Feminine
Yulia is the Russian and Ukrainian form of Julia, and the Roman family behind it claimed a goddess as an ancestor.
How old is the name Yulia?
Yulia first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Yulia is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Yulia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yulia most popular?
Yulia peaked in 2014, reaching #4103 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 357 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Yulia
Ours, offered as ours. July is named for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus, and they are the only two months in the western calendar named for individuals — the rest are gods, festivals or numbers. Caesar renamed Quintilis, the fifth month, for himself when he reformed the calendar in 46 BC. So the name Julia carries a month, an empire and an unverifiable claim to descent from Venus. Russian gives Yulia.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The Roman gens Iulia has no established derivation; the family claimed descent from Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is a genealogical claim rather than an etymology. Readings from a word for downy are offered without support.
Pronouncing Yulia
YOO-lee-ah
Three syllables, first stressed. Russian gives YOO-lyah.
Nicknames for Yulia
Moderate
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 201436 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4103reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- +40.9%31 in 2025, from 22
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.
Yulia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Юлия in Russian — transliteration
- Julia in English — same name
- Yuliya in Ukrainian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Yulias among us
people named Yulia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Yulia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yulia
- #4460
- Yulia on the 2025 chart
- #924
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yulia went to 31 girls in 2025, but Yuliya is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 36, which makes it the 924th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,536 places above the chart.
- Yulia31
- Yuliya5
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Yulia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nyeisha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yulia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nyeisha climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nyeisha's path sketches the road Yulia is walking now.
Yulia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yulia is headed
Yulia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Yulia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yulia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One of the great Roman names with an enormous historical record.
- Yulya and Julie are both ready short forms in two languages.
- Five letters and three syllables, quick to write.
- Julia is the English form and will be assumed and written.
- The meaning is genuinely unknown despite the family's fame.
- Yulia, Yuliya and Julia are all in use and mark different countries.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yulias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Yulia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yulia?
- Yulia is the most-used spelling in US records — 31 of the 36 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Yuliya.
- How popular is the name Yulia in 2025?
- Yulia ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yulia?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Yulia — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yulia with classmates?
- Yulia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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