Given name
Giulietta
“one who is youthful; daughter of the sky”
Giulietta connects to the Julia name family through Giulia. One Latin interpretation is “one who is youthful; daughter of the sky.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Giulietta connects to the Julia name family through Giulia. One Latin interpretation is “one who is youthful; daughter of the sky.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Giulietta connects to the Julia name family through Giulia. An origin associated with Julia is Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian use, Giulietta is used as a diminutive of Grulia.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Giulietta connects to the Julia name family through Giulia. The history of Julia gives this family its wider story. Julia’s historical associations include numerous early saints.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Giulietta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 727
- 0 boys · 727 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 101 babies
- 2025
- 51
- #3,144 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 51 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 3,144 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 24.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 101 in 2016. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (10). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 398 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Giulietta’s family of names
Giulietta is a diminutive of GruLIA. Giulietta shares a linguistic root with Juliette. In Italian usage, Giulietta has a conventional equivalent in the English form Juliet.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Giulietta has relatives in 7 languages.
5 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Juliettecognate · French, German
- Julietderivative · ceb, English
- JulietaSpanish
- Juliettaequivalent
- Giulianaequivalent
- ΙουλιέτταGreek
- Жулиетаequivalent
- Julikaequivalent
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People named Giulietta
- Giulietta MasinaItalian actress (1921–1994)
- Giulietta SimionatoItalian opera singer1910–2010
- Julie GuicciardiAustrian aristocrat, briefly a piano student of Ludwig van Beethoven1782–1856
- Giulietta PezziItalian writer and journalist1812–1878
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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