Juliet

Meaning: Downy-haired; devoted to Jove
Origin: Variant of Juliette (from Latin)

Girl's name · #274 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Juliet is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it is ranked #274 in 2025, with about 1,100 girls given the name last year. Roughly 38,000 have carried it all-time. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 41 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#465 in Ireland (2025) · #507 in Scotland (2025) · #664 in England & Wales (2025) · #708 in Belgium (2025) · #714 in Netherlands (2025) · #926 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,004 in Sweden (2025) · #762 in Canada (2024).

Famous Juliets

Juliet Mills — British actress
Juliet Landau — American actress
Juliet Ibrahim — Ghanaian actress, film producer, and singer
Juliet Cuthbert — Jamaican sprinter and politician
Juliet Stevenson — English actor (born 1956)

In stories & tradition

Juliet — Romeo and Juliet
Juliet Burke — Lost (TV series)
Juliet O'Hara — Psych (TV series)

What Juliets become

Among 320 notable people named Juliet:

Entertainers appear 1.81× more often than among typical names — e.g. Juliet Landau, American actress.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Juliette (#110), Juliet would rank around #64 with about 3,600 births last year — the newborns split about 68/32 between Juliette and Juliet.

Similar names: Juliette · Noelle · Juliana · Serena · Anya · Margot

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