Entry № 5041 · Latin origin

Juliet Juliet — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOO-lee-et /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Youthful, downy-bearded"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "youthful, downy-bearded".

Juliet is the English form of the French Juliette — a diminutive of Julie, ultimately from the Latin Julia, the feminine of the Roman family name Julius.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595) made the name eternal. Today Juliet sits in the U.S.

Youthful, downy-bearded — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Juliet
Transliteration
Juliet
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒuː.li.ət /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Juliet stands.

Juliet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Juliets before her.

Real people
Juliet Stevenson
British actress.
born 1956
Juliet Mills
British actress.
born 1941
In fiction
Juliet Capulet
Heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
c. 1595 play

Names connected to Juliet.

The number behind Juliet.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Juliet reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.