Entry № 5040 · French origin

Julie Julie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOO-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Youthful (Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins; Julie Walters)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "youthful (julie andrews, mary poppins; julie walters)".

Julie is the French form of Julia — from the Latin Iulius, the gens (clan) name from which Julius Caesar took his name, possibly meaning "youthful" or "of Jupiter." A top-15 US baby name from 1965 to 1976, peaking at #10 in 1971. Her three-octave coloratura soprano voice was permanently damaged in a 1997 surgery for non-cancerous throat nodules; she sued the doctor and won an undisclosed settlement. Dame Commander of the British Empire (2000). Weasley in seven Harry Potter films, Mamma Mia!.

Subject of Andrews's memoir Home Work (2019).

Youthful (Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins; Julie Walters) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Julie
Transliteration
Julie
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒuː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Julie stands.

Julie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Julies before her.

Real people
Dame Julie Andrews
British Oscar actress.
born 1935
Dame Julie Walters
British actress.
born 1950
Julie Christie
British Oscar actress.
born 1940
In fiction
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins.
1964
Maria von Trapp
The Sound of Music.
1965

Names connected to Julie.

The number behind Julie.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Julie reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.