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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.
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 ...
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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
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 .
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.
Juliette Barnes, in the musical drama series Nashville; Juliette Ferrars, the main character of the YA novel Shatter Me; Juliette Silverton, in the TV series Grimm; Juliette, from the video game Fur Fighters