Name profile

Juliet

Anglicized form of Giulietta or Juliette.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#274

Meaning and history

Anglicized form of Giulietta or Juliette, this spelling was used for Romeo’s ill-fated lover in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1596), a play based on earlier Italian tales such as Luigi Da Porto’s Giulietta e Romeo (1524).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 503 births, rank #582
2007: 609 births, rank #517
2008: 697 births, rank #453
2009: 1,024 births, rank #318
2010: 1,142 births, rank #285
20112011: 1,276 births, rank #249
2012: 1,271 births, rank #254
2013: 1,334 births, rank #238
2014: 1,268 births, rank #259
2015: 1,357 births, rank #240
20162016: 1,397 births, rank #228
2017: 1,380 births, rank #227
2018: 1,348 births, rank #243
2019: 1,231 births, rank #269
2020: 1,038 births, rank #306
20212021: 1,078 births, rank #295
2022: 1,076 births, rank #293
2023: 1,063 births, rank #293
2024: 1,122 births, rank #282
20252025: 1,136 births, rank #274

Juliet rose from #283 to #274 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2016, with 1,397 births.