Julia (given name)

Julia is a usually feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name Julia had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. Julia of Corsica) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance. It became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world.

Statistics
Julia was the 30th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for women in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006; the 5th most popular name for girls born in Sweden in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Belgium in 2006; the 53rd most popular name for girls born in Norway in 2007; the 70th most popular name for girls born in Hungary in 2005; the 46th most popular name for girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2006; the 9th most popular name for girls born in Germany in 2005; the 2nd most popular name for girls born in Poland in 2013 and the most popular name in Austria.

The programming language Julia, is a rare one using a feminine name (the, likely, earliest one is Ada, another earlier is Ruby and later Crystal). The language Julia is however not named after (a specific) woman, while Ada is named after the programmer pioneer Ada Lovelace. Most languages aren't named after people, while e.g. Pascal and Haskell are named after men.

Ancient world

 * Julia (women of the Julii Caesares):
 * Julia (wife of Sulla) (c. 129 BC–c. 104 BC), first wife of Sulla
 * Julia (wife of Marius) (c. 130 BC–69 BC)
 * Julia (mother of Mark Antony) (104 BC–after 39 BC)
 * Julia Major (sister of Julius Caesar) (before 101 BC–?)
 * Julia Minor (sister of Julius Caesar) (101 BC–51 BC), maternal grandmother of Emperor Augustus Caesar
 * Julia (daughter of Caesar) (c. 76 BC–54 BC)
 * Livia Drusilla (58 BC–29 AD), also known as Julia Augusta, wife of Emperor Augustus Caesar
 * Julia the Elder (39 BC–14 AD), daughter of Emperor Augustus
 * Julia Livia (before 14–43), granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius
 * Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger (15–59), daughter of the general Germanicus and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius
 * Julia Drusilla (16–38), daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula
 * Julia Livilla (18-late AD 41 or early AD 42), daughter of Germanicus, youngest sister of Caligula
 * Julia Drusilla (39–41), daughter of Emperor Caligula
 * Julia the Younger (actually Vipsania Julia, 19 BC–c. AD 29), daughter of Julia the Elder
 * Berenice (daughter of Herod Agrippa) (28–after 81), Julia Berenice, princess of the Herodian Dynasty
 * Julia Urania (fl. 1st century), wife of Roman client king Ptolemy of Mauretania
 * Julia Bodina (fl. 1st century), a slave, later freedwoman, of Julia Urania of Mauretania
 * Julia Procilla, mother of Gallo-Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93)
 * Julia Iotapa (daughter of Antiochus III) (before 17–c. 52), Queen of Commagene
 * Julia Iotapa (daughter of Antiochus IV) (c. 45–after 96), Queen of Cetis
 * Julia Iotapa (Cilician princess) (c. 80–2nd century), Princess of Cilicia
 * Julia Mamaea (wife of Polemon II of Pontus) (fl. 1st century), second wife of Polemon II of Pontus
 * Julia (daughter of Tigranes VI of Armenia) (fl. 1st century-possibly 2nd century), Herodian Princess of Armenia
 * Julia Agricola (64–?), daughter of general Gnaeus Julius Agricola and wife to historian Tacitus
 * Julia Flavia (64–91), daughter of emperor Titus
 * Julia Balbilla (72–after 130), poet and companion of Hadrian's wife Vibia Sabina
 * Julia Tertulla (fl. 1st–2nd century), daughter of suffect consul Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus
 * Julia Serviana Paulina (died before 136?), niece of Emperor Hadrian
 * Julia Crispina, princess and granddaughter of Julia Berenice
 * Julia Fadilla, younger half-sister to Emperor Antoninus Pius and paternal aunt to Empress Faustina the Younger
 * Julia Domna (160–217), empress and wife of Emperor Septimius Severus
 * Julia Maesa (c. 165–c. 224), Domna's sister
 * Julia Soaemias (180–222), daughter to Julia Maesa and mother of emperor Elagabalus
 * Julia Avita Mamaea (after 180–235), Soaemias' sister and mother of emperor Alexander Severus
 * Julia Severa or Severina (fl. 3rd century), daughter of Emperor Philip the Arab
 * One of the Martyrs of Zaragoza (died c. 303)
 * Julia of Mérida (died 304), martyr
 * Julia of Corsica (died on or after 439), virgin martyr

Modern world

 * Danielle Julia Marcano (born 1997), American soccer player
 * Julia (AV actress) (born 1987), Japanese AV actress
 * Julia Carter Aldrich (1834–1924), American author
 * Júlia Almeida (born 1983), Brazilian actress
 * Julia A. Ames (1816–1891), American journalist, editor and temperance reformer
 * Julia Arthur (1869–1950), Canadian-born stage and film actress
 * Julia Barretto (born 1997), Filipino actress
 * Julia Bascom, 21st century American autism rights activist
 * Julie Billiart (1751–1816), French Catholic saint
 * Julia Boutros (born 1968), Lebanese singer
 * Julia Budd (born 1983), Canadian martial artist
 * Julia Campbell, multiple people
 * Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (1823–1908), American educator and poet
 * Julia Child (1912–2004), American gourmet cook, author and television personality
 * Julia Clarete (born 1979), Filipino singer and actress
 * Julia Cohen (born 1989), American tennis player
 * Julia Colman (1828–1909), American educator, activist, editor and writer
 * Julia Pleasants Creswell (1827–1886), American poet and novelist
 * Julia Dean (actress, born 1830) (1830–1868), American stage actress
 * Julia Dean (actress, born 1878) (1878–1952), American stage and film actress
 * Julia Deans, New Zealand singer-songwriter
 * Julia de Burgos (1914–1953), Puerto Rican poet
 * Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913), American author
 * Julia Dorsey (1850-1919), African-American suffragist
 * Julia Duffy (born 1951), American actress
 * Julia Duporty (born 1971), Cuban sprinter
 * Julia Knowlton Dyer (1829–1927), American philanthropist
 * Julia Figueredo (born 1966), Bolivian politician
 * Julia Fiquet (born 2001), French singer known by the mononym Julia
 * Julia Fischer (born 1983), German violinist
 * Julia Wheelock Freeman (1833–1900), American Civil War nurse
 * Julia Gatley, architect, academic, architectural historian and author from New Zealand
 * Julia Gillard (born 1961), Australian politician, Prime Minister
 * Julia Glushko (born 1990), Israeli tennis player
 * Julia Goddard (1825–1896), British children's writer and animal welfare campaigner
 * Julia Gordon, Canadian mathematician
 * Julia Görges (born 1988), German tennis player
 * Julia Grant (1826–1902), wife of US President Ulysses Grant
 * Julia Boynton Green (1861–1957), American poet
 * Julia Hamburg (born 1986), German politician
 * Julia Haworth (born 1979), British actress
 * Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), American abolitionist, social activist and poet
 * Julia Hütter (born 1983), German pole vaulter
 * Julia Ioffe (born 1982), Russian-born American journalist
 * Julia Irwin (born 1951), Australian politician
 * Julia Kinberg (1874–1945), Swedish physician and feminist
 * Julia Klöckner (born 1972), German politician
 * Julia Kwan, Canadian screenwriter and director
 * Julia Lathrop (1858–1932), American social reformer
 * Julia Ledóchowska, birth name of Ursula Ledóchowska (1865–1939), Roman Catholic saint
 * Julia Lennon (1914–1958), mother of John Lennon
 * Julia Lipnitskaya (born 1998), Russian figure skater
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961), American actress, co-star of the TV series Seinfeld
 * Julia Mancuso (born 1984), American skier
 * Julia Marden, Wampanoag artist
 * Julia Marlowe (1865–1950), English-born American actress
 * Julia Harris May (1833–1912), American poet, teacher and school founder
 * Julia E. McConaughy (1834–1885), American litterateur and author
 * Julia Menéndez (born 1985), Spanish field hockey defender
 * Julia Michaels (born 1993), American singer and songwriter
 * Julia Montes (born 1995), Filipino-German actress
 * Julia A. Moore (1847–1920), American poet
 * Julia Morgan (1872–1957), American architect
 * Julia Morton (1912–1996), American author and botanist
 * Julia Murney (born 1969), American actress and singer
 * Julia Nesheiwat, Arab-American US Army soldier and advisor
 * Julia Newmeyer (born 1933), American actress better known as Julie Newmar
 * Julia Nyberg (1784–1854), Swedish poet
 * Julia Ormond (born 1965), British actress
 * Julia Anna Orum (1843-1904), American educator, lecturer, and author
 * Julia Perez (1980–2017), Indonesian actress, singer, presenter, model and comedian
 * Julia Pérez Montes de Oca (1839–1875), Cuban poet
 * Julia Phillips (1944–2002), American film producer and author
 * Julia Piera (born 1970), Spanish poet
 * Julia Jones Pugliese (1909–1993), American fencer and fencing coach
 * Julia Rais (born 1971), Malaysian film actress and princess
 * Julia Riew, American composer and songwriter
 * Julia Roberts (born 1967), American actress
 * Julia Sakara (born 1969), Zimbabwean middle-distance runner
 * Julia Sanderson (1888–1975), American actress and singer
 * Julia Sanina (born 1990), Ukrainian singer and the front woman of the Ukrainian alternative rock band The Hardkiss
 * Julia Sawalha (born 1968), British actress
 * Julia Schruff (born 1982), German retired tennis player
 * Julia Seton (1862-1950), American physician, lecturer and author
 * Julia Stiles (born 1981), American actress
 * Julia H. Scott (1809–1842), American poet
 * Julia Sude (born 1987), German beach volleyball player
 * Julia Swayne Gordon (1878–1933), American actress
 * Julia Sweeney (born 1959), American actor and comedian
 * Julia Vakulenko (born 1983), Ukrainian tennis player
 * Julia Rush Cutler Ward (1796–1824), American poet
 * Julia Wells (born 1935), English actress, singer and author better known as Julie Andrews
 * Julia Whitworth, American priest
 * Julia Wilson (born 1978), Australian rower
 * Julia Winter (born 1993), Swedish-British actress
 * Julia A. Wood (1840–1927), American writer and composer
 * Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (pen name, Minnie Mary Lee; 1825–1903), American author
 * Julia McNair Wright (1840–1903), American writer
 * Julia Evelyn Ditto Young (1857–1915), American novelist and poet

Fictional characters

 * Julia (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a character in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
 * Julia (Rave Master), a character in manga series Rave Master
 * Julia (Sesame Street), a character with autism in the children's television series Sesame Street
 * Julia, a character in The Ragwitch by Garth Nix
 * Julia, a character in William Shakespeare's play Two Gentlemen of Verona
 * Julia, a character in the anime series Cowboy Bebop
 * Julia Argent, a character from the Netflix series, Carmen Sandiego (TV series)
 * Julia Baker, a character from the 1960's television series, Julia (1968 TV series)
 * Julia Chang, character in the Tekken video game series
 * Julia "Jules" Cobb, a character played by Courteney Cox on the comedy series Cougar Town
 * Julia Crichton, the female protagonist in Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
 * Donna Julia, a character in the poem "Don Juan" by Lord Byron
 * Julia Fernandez, a character from the manga and anime Beyblade G-Revolutions
 * Julie "Finn" Finlay, a character played by Elisabeth Shue in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
 * Julia Flyte, a character in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
 * Julia Goodway, a character in the 2013 animated series PAW Patrol (originally named Justina Goodway)
 * Julia Graham, a character in the 2010 adaptation of Parenthood
 * Julia Houston, a character played by Debra Messing on the TV series Smash
 * Julia McNamara, a character on the U.S. television series Nip/Tuck
 * Julia Ogden, a character in the Canadian television series Murdoch Mysteries
 * Julia Sugarbaker, a character in the sitcom Designing Women
 * Julia Feingold, minor character from the novel serie «The Trials of Apollo» by Rick Riordan.

List of variants

 * Džūlija, Jūlija (Latvian)
 * Ghjulia (Corsican)
 * Gillian (English)
 * Giulia (Italian)
 * Giuliana (Italian)
 * Giulietta (Italian)
 * Ίουλα, Íoula, Íula (Greek)
 * Ιουλία, Ioulía, Iulía (Greek)
 * Ιουλιέττα or Ιουλιέτα, Ioulietta/Ioulieta, Iulietta/Iulieta (Greek)
 * Iuliana, Iouliana (Ιουλιάνα) (Greek)
 * Iulianna, Ioulianna (Ιουλιάννα) (Greek)
 * Iúile (Irish)
 * Iulia (Bulgarian, Hawaiian, Romanian and Latin.)
 * Iuliana (Romanian)
 * Jill (English)
 * Jillian (English)
 * Jovita (Spanish)
 * Jules (English)
 * Juli (Hungarian)
 * Júlia (Catalan, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovak)
 * Júlía (Icelandic)
 * Juliana (Dutch, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish)
 * Juliane (French, German)
 * Julianna (English, Hungarian, Polish)
 * Julianne (English)
 * Juliana, Julia, Yulia (Indonesian)
 * Julie (Czech, Danish, English, French, Norwegian)
 * Julienne (French)
 * Julienna (French)
 * Juliet (English)
 * Julia (Portuguese, Spanish)
 * Julieta, Julietta (Spanish)
 * Juliette (French)
 * Julija (Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene)
 * Jūlija (Latvian)
 * Julijana (Slovene)
 * Julinka (Hungarian)
 * Juliska (Hungarian)
 * Julcia, Julka, Julia (Polish)
 * Julitta (Dutch)
 * Juulia (Estonian, Finnish)
 * Uliana (Ульяна) (Russian)
 * Uliana, Uliyana (Уляна) (Ukrainian)
 * Xhulia (Albanian)
 * Xhuliana (Albanian)
 * Xulia (Galician)
 * Xiana (Galician)
 * Xianna (Galician)
 * Yulia (Юлия) (Russian)
 * Yuliia, Yuliya (Юлія) (Ukrainian)
 * Yuliana (Bulgarian, Russian)
 * Yuliya (Bulgarian, Russian)
 * Julija (Macedonian)