Juliette

Juliette meaning

Juliette is an international girl's name of Latin origin (French form).

Meaning today

Youthful

Juliette is the French pet form of Julie, which comes from Latin Iulia, the feminine of the Roman family name Iulius. The Online Etymology Dictionary traces the English form Juliet to Italian Giulietta, a diminutive of Giulia, and compares French Juliette. The name is best known from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1590s), in which Juliet Capulet is the young heroine of Verona. Name lists give Juliette the meaning "youthful", as for Julia, but the dictionaries treat the root only as a family name. In India it is said "joo-lee-ET", and it works well with both Christian and other Indian surnames.

References: Online Etymology Dictionary, Juliet · Lewis & Short, Iulius (Logeion)

Famous namesakes

• Juliet Capulet, heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
• Juliette Binoche, French actress

Popularity abroad

• #110 United States, girls 2025 (up 19 from 129 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #630 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Juliette · Juliet

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