Juliette

Where Juliette comes from

The dictionaries list Juliette as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Julie, from French Juliette — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #582 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Juliette Binoche born
    French actress, artist and dancer
  3. 1973
    Juliette Lewis born
    American actress and singer
  4. 2025
    Peak, #110
    2,460 babies named Juliette — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Julie, from French Juliette.
Namesakes
  • Juliette Binoche · French actress, artist and dancer, born 1964
  • Juliette Lewis · American actress and singer, born 1973
  • Juliette Gréco · French singer and actress, 1927–2020
  • Juliette Récamier · French salon-holder, 1777–1849
  • Juliette Adam · French writer and salonnière, 1836–1936

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.