Juliet is a feminine given name, an English form of the Italian Giulietta, which is a diminutive form of Italian Giulia. It is also an English form of the French Juliette, which is a diminutive form of the French Julie. All forms of the name are ultimately derived from the Latin Julia, a name which originated with the Julia gens of Ancient Rome. The name is best known in the Anglosphere as the tragic heroine of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.[1]
 Juliet or The Blue Necklace by John William Waterhouse, 1898 | |
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | English |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | English version of Italian Giulietta or French Juliette, both diminutives of Latin Julia |
Usage
editJuliet has seen regular use for girls born in both the United Kingdom and the United States.[2]
Women
edit- Juliet Ace (born 1938), British dramatist and screenwriter
- Juliet Agasha (living), Ugandan politician
- Juliet Akano (born 1963), Nigerian politician
- Juliet Alexander (living), Guyanese-born British educator, journalist and television presenter
- Juliet Appiah (born 1989), Ghanaian police officer and Ghanaian association football referee
- Juliet Asante, Ghanaian film actress, producer and director, and philanthropist
- Juliet Aubrey (born 1966), British actress
- Juliet Awwad (born 1951), Jordanian actress and producer of Armenian descent
- Juliet Barker (born 1958), English historian
- Juliet Bashore (born 1956), American film maker
- Juliet Bawuah, Ghanaian sports journalist
- Juliet Bingley (1925–2005), English social worker
- Juliet Biggs, British geologist and academic
- Juliet Blake, British-American film, television and web producer
- Juliet Bredon (1881–1937), writer; a British citizen born and raised in China who ultimately settled in the United States
- Juliet Bressan, Irish novelist and doctor
- Joan Juliet Buck (born 1948), American writer and actress
- Juliet Cadzow (born 1951), British actress
- Juliet H. Lewis Campbell (1823–1898), American poet and novelist
- Juliet Jean Campbell (born 1970), Jamaican sprinter and Olympian
- Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne Campbell (born 1935), British diplomat and academic administrator also known as Juliet Collings
- Juliet Cesario (born 1967), American character actress
- Juliet Chekwel (born 1990), Ugandan long distance runner and Olympian
- Juliet Chibuta, Zambian women's right activist
- Juliet Corson (1841–1897), American leader in cookery education and newspaper columnist
- Juliet Cowan (born 1974), British actress
- Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845–1934), American educator and labor activist
- Juliet Daniel, Barbadian-born Canadian biologist and academic
- Juliet Davenport (born 1968), British businesswoman
- Juliet Dunlop, Scottish freelance broadcast journalist
- Juliet Dymoke (1919–2001), English historical novelist
- Juliet Elu, American economist and academic
- Juliet Escoria, American writer
- Juliet Etherington (born 1979), New Zealand shooting competitor
- Juliet Floyd, American academic
- Juliet Frankland (1929–2013), British mycologist
- Juliet Fraser, British soprano, based in London and specialising in contemporary classical music
- Juliet Gardiner (born 1943), British historian and academic
- Juliet Gerrard (born 1967), New Zealand biochemistry academic
- Juliet Gilkes Romero, British stage and screen writer
- Juliet Gopinath (born 1976), American optical engineer and academic
- Juliet Greer (1871–1942), American home economist and college professor
- Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 1953), English actress
- Juliet Harmer (born 1941), English artist, children's author and actress
- Juliet Haslam (born 1969), Australian field hockey player
- Juliet Holness, wife of Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness and a Member of the Jamaican House of Representatives
- Juliet Hooker, Nicaraguan-born American political scientist and academic
- Juliet-Jane Horne, Scottish model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Juliet Huddy (born 1969), American journalist
- Anne Perry (née Juliet Hulme; 1938–2023), British mystery writer who was convicted of a murder she committed in New Zealand at age 16
- Juliet Ibrahim (born 1983), Ghanaian actress, film producer and singer of Lebanese, Ghanaian and Liberian descent
- Juliet Itoya (born 1986), Nigerian-born Spanish athlete specialising in the long jump
- Juliet Kabera, Rwandan scientist and civil servant
- Juliet Kac (born 1949), New Zealand artist
- Juliet Kavetuna (born 1974), Namibian politician
- Juliet Kelly, British jazz singer and songwriter
- Juliet Kepes (née Appleby; 1919–1999), British illustrator, painter and sculptor
- Juliet Kono (born 1943), American Hawaiʻian poet and novelist
- Juliet Landau (born 1965), American actress
- Juliet Lapidos, American writer and editor
- Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933–2014), Chinese-born American physicist and academic
- Juliet Lima (born 1981), Venezuelan actress
- Juliet Litman (born 1986), American journalist, editor, and media personality
- Juliet Lyon, British director of the Prison Reform Trust from 2000 to 2016
- Juliet Lyons, American singer, songwriter, and production music composer
- Juliet Macur, American journalist
- Juliet Obanda Makanga (born 1985), Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist, and medical researcher
- Juliet Man Ray (née Browner; 1911–1991), American dancer, model and muse to Man Ray
- Juliet May, British television director
- Juliet May (born 1961), British judge
- Chandler Juliet McChesney, American actress, YouTuber, comedian, and singer-songwriter
- Juliet E. McKenna (born 1965), British fantasy author
- Juliet McMains, American dance scholar and instructor
- Juliet Mills (born 1941), British-American actress
- Juliet Mitchell (born 1940), British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author
- Marion Juliet Mitchell (1836–1917), American poet and educator
- Juliet Morris (born 1965), British television presenter
- Juliet Morrow, American archaeologist and academic
- Juliet Murphy (born 1980), Irish sportswoman
- Juliet Murrell, British set designer in the fashion, film and design industry
- Juliet Nicolson (born 1954), British author and journalist
- Juliet Osborne, British entomologist and ecologist
- Juliet Peddle (1899–1979), American modernist architect
- Juliët Post (born 1997), Dutch cricketer
- Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886–c. 1937), American suffragist, trade unionist and communist spy
- Juliet Prowse (1936–1996), British-American dancer and actress
- Juliet Reagh (born 1964), American actress and model
- Mary Miles Minter (born Juliet Reilly; 1902–1984), American actress
- Juliet Rhys-Williams (1898–1964), British writer and politician
- Juliet Richardson (born 1980), American musician
- Juliet Roberts (born 1962), British jazz, rock, soul and house music singer of Grenadian descent
- Juliet Roper (born 1953), New Zealand management communications academic
- Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966), American birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer
- Juliet Rylance (née van Kampen; born 1979), English actress and producer
- Juliet Sargeant (born 1965), British garden designer
- Juliet Schor (born 1955), American economist and academic
- Juliet Sear (born 1974), English baker and television personality
- Juliet Simms (born 1986), American musician
- Juliet Snowden, American screenwriter, film director, and producer
- Juliet Sorensen (born 1972–73; American academic)
- Juliet Sorci (born 1979), American actress
- Juliet Soskice (née Hueffer; 1881–1944), English translator and writer
- Juliet Starrett (born 1973), American whitewater rafting world champion, entrepreneur, bestselling author, athlete, and podcaster
- Juliet Stevenson (born 1956), English actress
- Juliet V. Strauss (1863–1918), American journalist and public speaker
- Juliet Kyinyamatama Suubi (born 1988), Ugandan politician
- Lady Juliet Tadgell (née Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; born 1935), British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner
- Juliet Taylor, American casting director
- Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), American painter, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
- Juliet Thompson (born 1967), American rower, triathlete, and coach
- Juliet Wilbor Tompkins (1871–1956), American writer and editor
- Lady Juliet Townsend (née Smith; 1941–2014), British writer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1998 to 2014
- Juliet Turner, British singer-songwriter
- Juliet Valpy (1835–1911), New Zealand artist
- Juliet "Julie" Warner (born 1965), American actress
- Juliet Wege (born 1971), Australian botanist)
- Juliet Wheldon (1950–2013), British civil servant
- Juliet Wilson–Bareau (born 1935), British art historian, curator, and independent scholar
- Juliet Wyers, American singer-songwriter
Stage name
edit- Juliet Alexander (born Judith Carr; 1938–2010), American pornographic actress and adult movie producer
- Juliet Berto (born Annie Jamet; 1947–1990), French actress, director and screenwriter
Fictional characters
edit- Juliet Capulet, the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
- Juliet Burke, a character in the TV drama Lost
- Juliet Sharp, a character in the TV drama Gossip Girl
- Juliet Starling, a character in Lollipop Chainsaw
- Juliet the Valentine Fairy, a character in Rainbow Magic
- Juliet Van Heusen, a character in Wizards of Waverly Place
- Juliet Butler, a character in the Artemis Fowl series
- Juliet Hobbes, a character in The Simpsons
- Juliet O'Hara, a character in the TV dramedy Psych
- Juliet, a character in Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure
- Juliet Douglas, the alias utilized by Sloth, a character in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime series
- Juliet Nightingale, a character in Hollyoaks
Notes
edit- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
- ^ Campbell, Mike. "Juliet". behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
This page or section lists people that share the same given name.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.