Juliet (given name)

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. The name is best known in the Anglosphere as the tragic heroine of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.^[1]

Usage

Juliet has seen regular use for girls born in both the United Kingdom and the United States.^[2]

Women

• Juliet Ace (born 1938), British dramatist and screenwriter
• Juliet Agasha (living), Ugandan politician
• Juliet Akano (born 1963), Nigerian politician
• Juliet Alexander (living), Guyanese-born British educator, journalist and television presenter
• Juliet Appiah (born 1989), Ghanaian police officer and Ghanaian association football referee
• Juliet Asante, Ghanaian film actress, producer and director, and philanthropist
• Juliet Aubrey (born 1966), British actress
• Juliet Awwad (born 1951), Jordanian actress and producer of Armenian descent
• Juliet Barker (born 1958), English historian
• Juliet Bashore (born 1956), American film maker
• Juliet Bawuah, Ghanaian sports journalist
• Juliet Bingley (1925–2005), English social worker
• Juliet Biggs, British geologist and academic
• Juliet Blake, British-American film, television and web producer
• Juliet Bredon (1881–1937), writer; a British citizen born and raised in China who ultimately settled in the United States
• Juliet Bressan, Irish novelist and doctor
• Joan Juliet Buck (born 1948), American writer and actress
• Juliet Cadzow (born 1951), British actress
• Juliet H. Lewis Campbell (1823–1898), American poet and novelist
• Juliet Jean Campbell (born 1970), Jamaican sprinter and Olympian
• Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne Campbell (born 1935), British diplomat and academic administrator also known as Juliet Collings
• Juliet Winters Carpenter (1948–2026), American translator of modern Japanese literature into English
• Juliet Cesario (born 1967), American character actress
• Juliet Chekwel (born 1990), Ugandan long distance runner and Olympian
• Juliet Chibuta, Zambian women's right activist
• Juliet Corson (1841–1897), American leader in cookery education and newspaper columnist
• Juliet Cowan (born 1974), British actress
• Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845–1934), American educator and labor activist
• Juliet Daniel, Barbadian-born Canadian biologist and academic
• Juliet Davenport (born 1968), British businesswoman
• Juliet Dunlop, Scottish freelance broadcast journalist
• Juliet Dymoke (1919–2001), English historical novelist
• Juliet Elu, American economist and academic
• Juliet Escoria, American writer
• Juliet Etherington (born 1979), New Zealand shooting competitor
• Juliet Floyd, American academic
• Juliet Frankland (1929–2013), British mycologist
• Juliet Fraser, British soprano, based in London and specialising in contemporary classical music
• Juliet Gardiner (born 1943), British historian and academic
• Juliet Gerrard (born 1967), New Zealand biochemistry academic
• Juliet Gilkes Romero, British stage and screen writer
• Juliet Gopinath (born 1976), American optical engineer and academic
• Juliet Greer (1871–1942), American home economist and college professor
• Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 1953), English actress
• Juliet Harmer (born 1941), English artist, children's author and actress
• Juliet Haslam (born 1969), Australian field hockey player
• Juliet Holness, wife of Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness and a Member of the Jamaican House of Representatives
• Juliet Hooker, Nicaraguan-born American political scientist and academic
• Juliet-Jane Horne, Scottish model and beauty pageant titleholder
• Juliet Huddy (born 1969), American journalist
• Anne Perry (née Juliet Hulme; 1938–2023), British mystery writer who was convicted of a murder she committed in New Zealand at age 16
• Juliet Ibrahim (born 1983), Ghanaian actress, film producer and singer of Lebanese, Ghanaian and Liberian descent
• Juliet Itoya (born 1986), Nigerian-born Spanish athlete specialising in the long jump
• Juliet Kabera, Rwandan scientist and civil servant
• Juliet Kac (born 1949), New Zealand artist
• Juliet Kavetuna (born 1974), Namibian politician
• Juliet Kelly, British jazz singer and songwriter
• Juliet Kepes (née Appleby; 1919–1999), British illustrator, painter and sculptor
• Juliet Kono (born 1943), American Hawaiʻian poet and novelist
• Juliet Landau (born 1965), American actress
• Juliet Lapidos, American writer and editor
• Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933–2014), Chinese-born American physicist and academic
• Juliet Lima (born 1981), Venezuelan actress
• Juliet Litman (born 1986), American journalist, editor, and media personality
• Juliet Lyon, British director of the Prison Reform Trust from 2000 to 2016
• Juliet Lyons, American singer, songwriter, and production music composer
• Juliet Macur, American journalist
• Juliet Obanda Makanga (born 1985), Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist, and medical researcher
• Juliet Man Ray (née Browner; 1911–1991), American dancer, model and muse to Man Ray
• Juliet May, British television director
• Juliet May (born 1961), British judge
• Juliet E. McKenna (born 1965), British fantasy author
• Juliet McMains, American dance scholar and instructor
• Juliet Mills (born 1941), British-American actress
• Juliet Mitchell (born 1940), British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author
• Marion Juliet Mitchell (1836–1917), American poet and educator
• Juliet Morris (born 1965), British television presenter
• Juliet Morrow, American archaeologist and academic
• Juliet Murphy (born 1980), Irish sportswoman
• Juliet Murrell, British set designer in the fashion, film and design industry
• Juliet Nicolson (born 1954), British author and journalist
• Juliet Osborne, British entomologist and ecologist
• Juliet Peddle (1899–1979), American modernist architect
• Juliët Post (born 1997), Dutch cricketer
• Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886–c. 1937), American suffragist, trade unionist and communist spy
• Juliet Prowse (1936–1996), British-American dancer and actress
• Juliet Reagh (born 1964), American actress and model
• Mary Miles Minter (born Juliet Reilly; 1902–1984), American actress
• Juliet Rhys-Williams (1898–1964), British writer and politician
• Juliet Richardson (born 1980), American musician
• Juliet Roberts (born 1962), British jazz, rock, soul and house music singer of Grenadian descent
• Juliet Roper (born 1953), New Zealand management communications academic
• Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966), American birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer
• Juliet Rylance (née van Kampen; born 1979), English actress and producer
• Juliet Sargeant (born 1965), British garden designer
• Juliet Schor (born 1955), American economist and academic
• Juliet Sear (born 1974), English baker and television personality
• Juliet Simms (born 1986), American musician
• Juliet Snowden, American screenwriter, film director, and producer
• Juliet Sorensen (born 1972–73; American academic)
• Juliet Sorci (born 1979), American actress
• Juliet Soskice (née Hueffer; 1881–1944), English translator and writer
• Juliet Starrett (born 1973), American whitewater rafting world champion, entrepreneur, bestselling author, athlete, and podcaster
• Juliet Stevenson (born 1956), English actress
• Juliet V. Strauss (1863–1918), American journalist and public speaker
• Juliet Kyinyamatama Suubi (born 1988), Ugandan politician
• Lady Juliet Tadgell (née Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; born 1935), British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner
• Juliet Taylor, American casting director
• Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), American painter, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
• Juliet Thompson (born 1967), American rower, triathlete, and coach
• Juliet Wilbor Tompkins (1871–1956), American writer and editor
• Lady Juliet Townsend (née Smith; 1941–2014), British writer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1998 to 2014
• Juliet Turner, British singer-songwriter
• Juliet Valpy (1835–1911), New Zealand artist
• Juliet "Julie" Warner (born 1965), American actress
• Juliet Wege (born 1971), Australian botanist)
• Juliet Wheldon (1950–2013), British civil servant
• Juliet Wilson–Bareau (born 1935), British art historian, curator, and independent scholar
• Juliet Wyers, American singer-songwriter

Stage name

• Juliet Alexander (born Judith Carr; 1938–2010), American pornographic actress and adult movie producer
• Juliet Berto (born Annie Jamet; 1947–1990), French actress, director and screenwriter

Fictional characters

• Juliet Capulet, the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
• Juliet Burke, a character in the TV drama Lost
• Juliet Sharp, a character in the TV drama Gossip Girl
• Juliet Starling, a character in Lollipop Chainsaw
• Juliet the Valentine Fairy, a character in Rainbow Magic
• Juliet Van Heusen, a character in Wizards of Waverly Place
• Juliet Butler, a character in the Artemis Fowl series
• Juliet Hobbes, a character in The Simpsons
• Juliet O'Hara, a character in the TV dramedy Psych
• Juliet, a character in Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure
• Juliet Douglas, the alias utilized by Sloth, a character in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime series
• Juliet Nightingale, a character in Hollyoaks

Notes

1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
2. ^ Campbell, Mike. "Juliet". behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 3 January 2024.