Juliet

What Juliet means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Juliet yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #240 in 2015 to #274 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Juliet?

US: Falling: down from #240 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #487 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 1,380 girls got the name (#227 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,415 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,444 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (4.08 per 1,000 girls), NV (2.06 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Juliet is #274 in the US and #661 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Juliet were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Juliette2,460 US · 62 E&W
• Juliett58 US
• Juliete6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Juliet

Girls

• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Vivienne#172Variant of Vivian, possibly meaning “alive”^*
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Clara#63“bright, shining, clear”^*

For a brother

• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Magnus#763“great”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Juliet’s. Rank is US 2025.