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The first appearance of Julie in a popular non-French literary work occurred with Swedish playwright August Strindberg's tragedy Miss Julie in 1888. As it became one of the most widely performed plays in the English-speaking world, the choice of Julie as a name expanded along with it.
The programming language Julia, is a rare one using a feminine name (the earliest one is likely Ada, another earlier is Ruby and later Crystal). The language Julia is however not named after a specific woman, while Ada is named after the programmer pioneer Ada Lovelace .
Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán. Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund.
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.
Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). In the anglosphere, it is also used for females but it’s still a predominantly masculine name. [ citation needed ] One of the few notable examples of a female fictional character with the name is Jules Lee from the American TV series Orphan ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
Yulia (Cyrillic: Юлия) is a female given name, the equivalent of the Latin Julia. It can be spelled Yulia, Yulya, Julia, Julja, Julija, Yuliia, Yuliya, Juliya or İulia. An alternative spelling is Ioulia/Gioulia (Greek) or Iuliia. Prononciations can differ, depending on where you are from.
Julien Temple (born 1952), an English film, documentary and music video director; Julien Tiersot (1857–1936), a French musicologist and composer; Julien Tomas (born 1985), a French rugby union player; Julien Torma (1902–1933), a French writer, playwright and poet; Julien Toudic (born 1985), a French football player