Given name & surname
Juliano
Juliano is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Juliano through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 972
- 972 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 43 babies
- 2025
- 30
- #3,702 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 30 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,702 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 8.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 43 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,104 as a first name in 2020; 4,391 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Juliano’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Juliano shares a linguistic root with the Old Galician-Portuguese form Juião. In Portuguese usage, Juliano has a conventional equivalent in the English form Julian. In Spanish usage, Juliano has a conventional equivalent in the French form Julien.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Juliano has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
7 related names in 8 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.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Juliano
- Juliano BellettiBrazilian association football playerborn 1976
- Juliano MineiroBrazilian association football playerborn 1986
- Juliano Mer-KhamisArab-Israeli actor1958–2011
- JucaBrazilian footballerborn 1979
- Juliano MáquinaMozambican boxerborn 1993
- Juliano CazarréBrazilian actorborn 1980
- Juliano Ribeiro SalgadoBrazilian cinematographer and screenwriter (born 1974)
- Juliano SpadacioBrazilian footballerborn 1980
- Juliano MoreiraBrazilian psychiatrist (1872–1933)1873–1932
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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