Iulian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: IULIÁN adj. (În sintagma) Calendar iulian = calendar stabilit din ordinul lui Iuliu Cezar în anul 46 a Cr
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries
/julijan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iulian is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 375(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 13K
- ESSpain1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 375 (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)IULIÁN adj. (În sintagma) Calendar iulian = calendar stabilit din ordinul lui Iuliu Cezar în anul 46 a Cr. [Pr.: -li-an].
Cited for this meaning 1
- DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iulian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #48 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 375 | — | Iulian | 148 |
| MD Moldova | #136 | 5,523 | 1 in 609 | 5.5K | Iulian | 53 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 2 | Iulian | 75 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,374 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Iulian | 81 |
| FR France | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Iulian | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Iulian | 22 |
| IS Iceland | — | 30 | 1 in 12K | 30 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Iulian is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Iul'ian.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Julian Sochockib. 1842PLnot in their usual namePolish-Russian mathematician
- Julian Balthasar Marchlewskib. 1866PLnot in their usual namePolish politician, editor (1866-1925)
- Julian Chorążyckib. 1885PLnot in their usual namePolish-Jewish military officer & Holocaust victim (1885-1943)
- Julian Scriabinb. 1908CHnot in their usual nameRussian composer (1908–1919)
- Julian Sitkovetskyb. 1925UAnot in their usual nameRussian-Ukrainian violinist
- Yulian Semyonovich Semyonovb. 1931RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1931–1993)
- July Edelsteinb. 1958ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Julian Rachlinb. 1974ATnot in their usual nameAustrian musician
- Iulian Filipescub. 1974RORomanian footballer
- Vlad Chiricheșb. 1989ROnot in their usual nameRomanian footballer (born 1989)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Iulian?
- A machine transcription gives /julijan/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- What are other forms of the name Iulian?
- In the etymology graph, Julian, Giuliano and Julen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Iulian a male or female name?
- Iulian is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Spain (INE), Norway (SSB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), among others.
- What does the name Iulian mean?
- Recorded meaning: IULIÁN adj. (În sintagma) Calendar iulian = calendar stabilit din ordinul lui Iuliu Cezar în anul 46 a Cr.
- In which country does Iulian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Iulian in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iulian.
- How common is the name Iulian?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 5,523 people named Iulian, about 1 in 609 residents.
- How common is Iulian compared with other names?
- In Romania, Iulian is the 48th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iulianThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Iulian” — the 48th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.