Julie

See also: jùliè

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːli/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -uːli

Proper noun

Julie

A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.
- 1813, George Crabbe, “Tracy”, in Adolphus William Ward, editor, Poems by George Crabbe, The University Press, published 1907, page 455:
  The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
- 1917, Grace Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
  "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie, in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
  "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
- 2000, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mother Kind, page 156:
  They were called Jim & Julie, professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.
- 2025 October 8, Jay Stahl, “Katie Porter goes viral again. This time, for berating a reporter.”, in USA Today‎^[1]:
  But Republicans and Porter's Democratic primary opponents have seized on an interview from last month that widely surfaced the week of Oct. 6 in which she reprimands CBS News California journalist Julie Watts multiple times.
(rare) A diminutive of the female given name Julia.

Translations

female given name — see Julia

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

Julie (plural Juliemaande)

July

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Julie

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈjulɪjɛ]

Proper noun

Julie f

a female given name, equivalent to English Julia

Declension

Declension of Julie (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Julie	Julie
genitive	Julie	Julií
dative	Julii	Juliím
accusative	Julii	Julie
vocative	Julie	Julie
locative	Julii	Juliích
instrumental	Julií	Juliemi

Danish

Proper noun

Julie

a female given name, equivalent to English Julia; variant form Julia
Juliet, the character in the play Romeo and Juliet.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒy.li/

Proper noun

Julie f

a female given name from Latin Iūlia, equivalent to English Julia

Related terms

Julia, Julienne, Juliette

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has articles on:

Julie and Julie (given name)

Wikipedia ^noWikipedia ^no

Etymology

Borrowed from French Julie (“female given name”), from Latin Iūlia (“Roman female given name”), the feminine form of Iūlius (“Julius”). The ultimate origin of the Roman family name is uncertain; see Julius.^[1] First attested in the 18th century.^[1] Doublet of Julia (“female given name”).

Compare Danish Julie, Swedish Julie, Finnish Julie, Greenlandic Julie, Czech Julie, English Julie, German Julie and Dutch Julie (“female given name”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /¹ˈjʉː.lɪ.ə/, [ˈjʉ̀ː.lɪ.ə̌]
Rhymes: -ʉːlɪə
Hyphenation: Ju‧li‧e

Proper noun

Julie

a female given name from French [in turn from Latin], equivalent to English Julia
Juliet, the female protagonist of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet

Usage notes

The Norwegian name day for Julie is 12 April, shared with Julia and Julius.^[2]
The name was especially popular in Norway during the early 20th century and from the 1990s onward.^[1]

Statistics

As of 1 January 2026, 13,869 women registered in Norway had Julie as their first given name; 10,193 of them had it as their only given name.^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 “Julie”, Nordic Names.
^ “Navnedag-kalender”, Navnebok.
^ “Navn”, Statistics Norway; data from the Norwegian Population Register as of 1 January 2026, published 28 January 2026.

Kruken, Kristoffer and Ola Stemshaug (1995), Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget.
Alhaug, Gulbrand (2011), 10 001 navn: Norsk fornavnleksikon, Oslo: Cappelen Damm.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove", from Latin Iuppiter, from Proto-Indo-European *dyeu-pəter-, from Proto-Indo-European *deyw-os, 'god', + *pəter, 'father'.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʒuli/

Proper noun

Julie

July