Julius

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Origin: Ancient Roman

Meaning: from a Roman family name possibly derived from Greek ioulous meaning "downy-bearded". It could also be from Latin Jupiter composed of elements dyeus meaning "shine" or "sky" and pater meaning "father", essentially meaning "heavenly father".


Variants:

• Julian
• Iulius (Ancient Roman)
• Giulio (Italian)
• Julio (Spanish, Portuguese)
• Juliusz (Polish)
• Iuliu (Romanian)
• Yuli (Russian)
• Yuliy (Russian)
• Jules (French)
• Július (Slovak)
• Julij (Slovene)

Feminine forms:

• Iulia (Ancient Roman)
• Julia (Ancient Roman, English, German)
• Julie (English, German)