Juliet

Where Juliet comes from

Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.
— Wiktionary's entry for Juliet
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1941
    Juliet Mills born
    British actress
  3. 1965
    Juliet Landau born
    American actress
  4. 2017
    Peak, #227
    1,380 babies named Juliet — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Juliet Landau · American actress, born 1965
  • Juliet Mills · British actress, born 1941
  • Juliet Cuthbert · Jamaican sprinter and politician, born 1964
  • Juliet Stevenson · English actor, born 1956
  • Juliet Ibrahim · Ghanaian actress, film producer, and singer, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.