Juliette
Meaning of Juliette
Juliette is a French diminutive of Julie, the French form of Julia, which comes from the Roman family name Julius. Julius is of uncertain origin; a common explanation links it to the Greek ioulos ("downy-bearded"), giving the meaning "youthful." It is pronounced joo-lee-ET in English and zhoo-LYEHT in French.
Shakespeare's Juliet is called Juliette in French, as in Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette. Well-known namesakes include Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA, and the Academy Award-winning French actress Juliette Binoche.
Juliette was long an uncommon choice in the U.S., ranking as low as 1,385th in 1990. It has climbed sharply since, including a jump from 160th in 2023 to 129th in 2024. In 2025 it reached its highest rank yet, 110th, with 2,460 girls given the name, the most in any year.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as joo-lee-ET (/ˈdʒu.li.ˈɛt/)
French
- Pronunced as zhoo-LYEHT (/ʒy.ljɛt/)
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Notable People Named Juliette
| Juliette Binoche is a celebrated French actress with more than 60 French and English films and major awards including an Academy Award a BAFTA and a Cesar. |
| Juliette Lake Lewis is an American actress, singer, and musician known for offbeat roles in dark films who rose to prominence in early 1990s indie and arthouse cinema and earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and two Primetime Emmys. |
| Juliette Gordon Low, an American inspired by Robert Baden Powell, founded the Girl Scouts of the USA after joining the Girl Guides in England and forming a group there in 1911. |
| Juliette Hampton Morgan was a Montgomery, Alabama librarian and early civil rights ally who condemned racism in letters to the local paper, suffered violent retaliation, and ultimately died by suicide. |
| Juliette MacIver, a New Zealand author of picture books for children, won the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards picture book prize for Thats Not a Hippopotamus and lives near Wellington with her four children. |
| Juliette Drouet was a French actress who left the stage to become the devoted companion and secretary of Victor Hugo, accompanying him into exile in the Channel Islands and writing him thousands of letters. |
| Juliette Simon-Girard - Juliette Josephine Simon Girard was a French soprano best known for operetta and the daughter of Comedie Francaise actor Philippe Lockroy and Opera Comique performer Caroline Girard. |
| Juliette Anne Haigh is a retired professional rower also known as Juliette Drysdale. |
| Juliette Wood is a British historian and Cardiff University lecturer specializing in Celtic and medieval history, magic, and folklore, a former Folklore Society director, and an Honorary Fellow of Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales. |
| Juliette Reilly is an American singer songwriter and YouTube creator. |
| Juliette Fretté - American comedian, writer, artist, activist, and model Juliette Rose Fretté, known as the Naughty Feminist, began in 2017 writing for National Lampoon and Weekly Humorist with her spoof series The Adventures of Angry Vagina. |
| Juliette Armanet is a French singer and songwriter. |
| Juliette Favez-Boutonnier - Juliet Favez-Boutonnier was a noted French academic, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. |
| Juliette Ramel is a Swedish Olympic dressage rider who placed 28th individually and fifth with the team at Rio 2016, then won European team bronze in 2019 with her sister Antonia. |
