Given name & surname
Juliet
“one who is youthful; daughter of the sky”
Juliet combines French and Italian name traditions with an unmistakable Shakespearean association.
Original FrenchJuliette
Meaning & origin
What it means
Juliet is a variant of Julia. One Latin interpretation is “one who is youthful; daughter of the sky.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
In English use, Juliet is used as a form of French.
The story
Juliet is the heroine of Romeo and Juliet. The English spelling adapts French Juliette or Italian Giulietta; the play made this particular form especially familiar.
Juliet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 37,971
- 5 boys · 37,966 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 1,402 babies
- 2025
- 1,136
- #274 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −14%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 1,136 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 274 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 14.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,397 in 2016. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (174). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 32,998 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 56,458 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Juliet’s family of names
In English usage, Juliet shares a linguistic root with the French form Juliette. Juliet has a related form in Julia. In French usage, Juliet has a conventional equivalent in the German form Julia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Juliet has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Juliet comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- JulietaSpanish, Portuguese
- Juliethequivalent
- Giuliettaroot · Italian
- Yulietequivalent
- JulitaPolish
- Juliskaequivalent
- ΙουλιέτταGreek
- JúliaHungarian
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People named Juliet
- Juliet MillsBritish actressborn 1941
- Juliet LandauAmerican actressborn 1965
- Juliet IbrahimGhanaian actress, film producer, and singerborn 1986
- Juliet CuthbertJamaican sprinter and politicianborn 1964
- Juliet StevensonEnglish actor (born 1956)
- Juliet Bertoactress, film director (1947–1990)
- Juliet RylanceBritish actressborn 1979
- Juliet MitchellFeminist psychologistborn 1940
- Juliet AsanteGhanaian actressborn 1901
Characters named Juliet: Juliet (William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"), Juliet Burke (the American mystery fiction television series Lost).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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