Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yuliya isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yuliya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 67
- 0 boys · 67 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,210 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,210 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,873 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.
Yuliya’s family of names
In English usage, Yuliya has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Юлия.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yuliya
- Yulia LipnitskayaRussian figure skaterborn 1998
- Julia SaninaUkrainian singerborn 1990
- Julia VolkovaRussian singer, member of the duo t.A.T.u.born 1985
- Yulia NavalnayaRussian public figure, Alexei Navalny's widowborn 1976
- Yulia PeresildRussian actress of Estonian origin (born 1984)
- Yuliya SamoylovaRussian singerborn 1989
- Yulia SavichevaRussian singerborn 1987
- Yuliya YefimovaRussian swimmerborn 1992
- Yulia PutintsevaKazakstani-Russian female tennis playerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.