Meaning: Its source is a Latin expression meaning "Jove's descendant."

Languages: This girl's name is used in Hungarian.

Nickname For: Juli

Narrative: Some authorities prefer the meaning ''downy beard.'' However, this might have been understood as an attribute of Jove, the chief of the Greco-Roman gods.

The original form evolved into Julius, the Latin name of a Roman clan whose most famous member was the military and political leader Julius Caesar.