Yulianna
Feminine · “of the Julian family”
Yulianna is the Slavic form of Juliana, and the Roman family behind it claimed descent from a goddess.
How old is the name Yulianna?
Yulianna first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Yulianna alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,400 people named Yulianna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yulianna most popular?
Yulianna peaked in 2002, reaching #2288 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 2,373 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iulia to Yulianna
The story of Yulianna
The Julii traced themselves to Iulus, son of Aeneas, and so to Venus, which is why Julius Caesar could give a funeral speech claiming a goddess for an ancestor. The month of July is named for him. The name spread through Christian Europe with several early saints and Slavic languages took it as Yuliana. Yulianna is a Russian and Ukrainian spelling with the doubled n.
Meaning
of the Julian family
From the Roman gens Julia, whose name is of unsettled derivation — possibly from Iulus, the son of Aeneas. Juliana is the feminine of Julianus, belonging to that family. Slavic languages give Yuliana and Yulia.
How the name formed
- Iulia
- Juliana
- Yulianna
Related forms: Юлианна · Juliana · Juliana
Pronouncing Yulianna
yoo-lee-AH-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Yulianna
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 200780 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2288reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −6.5%29 in 2025, from 31
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.
Yulianna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Юлианна in Russian — transliteration
- Juliana in English — same name
- Juliana in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Yuliannas among us
people named Yulianna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Yulianna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yulianna
- #4661
- Yulianna on the 2025 chart
- #795
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yulianna went to 29 girls in 2025, but Yuliana is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 165, which makes it the 795th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,866 places above the chart.
- Yuliana136
- Yulianna29
About 1 girl in 9,741 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 55,423 for Yulianna 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 Melvena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yulianna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Melvena climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Melvena's path sketches the road Yulianna is walking now.
Yulianna 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 Yulianna is headed
Yulianna 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.
Yulianna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yulianna 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 oldest documented family names in Europe stands behind it.
- Yulia and Anna are both complete names in their own right.
- Every vowel is sounded, so it reads correctly in most languages.
- Eight letters and four syllables is a lot for early handwriting.
- Juliana is the familiar English form and will be offered as a correction.
- The initial Y will be spelled out for her constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yuliannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Yulianna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yulianna?
- Yulianna is one of 2 recorded spellings. Yuliana is the more common one — 136 births in 2025 against 29 for Yulianna.
- How popular is the name Yulianna in 2025?
- Yulianna ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yulianna?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Yulianna — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yulianna with classmates?
- Yulianna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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