Giuliano
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Meaning
“Italian form of the Roman Iulianus, a derivative of the family name Julius, 'belonging to Julius'”
The story
Giuliano is the Italian form of Roman Iulianus, derived from the family name Julius. Spanish Julián and Portuguese Juliano and Julião belong to the same family. In Renaissance Florence, the name appears in lives closely connected with the Medici family’s power and patronage.
Giuliano de’ Medici and his brother Lorenzo, known as the Magnificent, were targets of the Pazzi conspiracy, which sought to remove their family from power. During the cathedral attack in 1478, Lorenzo survived and Giuliano was killed. Botticelli’s portrait of Giuliano was probably painted after his death. The lowered eyes, half-open shutter and turtledove resting on a dead branch can be read as signs of death and remembrance, according to the museum’s interpretation.
The architect Giuliano da Sangallo studied ancient buildings and brought their forms into Renaissance projects. For Lorenzo de’ Medici, his villa at Poggio a Caiano combined a raised terrace and balanced rooms with an entrance resembling a classical temple. His work involved adapting the buildings of antiquity to a new residence. The later actor Giuliano Gemma belonged to another Italian cultural world, playing Ringo in Duccio Tessari’s western The Return of Ringo.
The exact Italian spelling also has a later Brazilian record. The 2022 census counted 5,692 residents named Giuliano; among them, the largest completed birth-decade group was the 1970s. The census counts people alive and living in Brazil, grouped by their decade of birth.
How popular is Giuliano around the world?
In the United States, Giuliano is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Argentina, 317 newborns were given the name Giuliano in 2024.
Giuliano is on the official records of the United States, Argentina, Montevideo, Chile, France, Canada, Brazil and Spain.
United States
on record
In the United States, Giuliano is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Giuliano has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Argentina
1 in 2,100
In Argentina, 317 newborns were given the name Giuliano in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Montevideo City
1 in 4,100 · 2011
In Montevideo, 6 boys named Giuliano were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Chile
1 in 11,000
In Chile, 16 boys were registered as Giuliano in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
France
1 in 18,000
In France, about 35 boys named Giuliano were born in 2025, ranked 1,013th among boys that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Canada
1 in 20,000
In Canada, 18 boys named Giuliano were born in 2024, ranked 1,281st among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Brazil
1 in 36,000
At the 2022 census, 5,692 people in Brazil were named Giuliano, ranked 2,506th, with a median age of 39.
Among people named Giuliano living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 44 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Spain
1 in 130,000
In Spain, 333 residents are named Giuliano, ranked 3,098th among men, with a mean age of 37.5 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
England and Wales
last on record 2021
Giuliano is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Puerto Rico
last on record 2008
Giuliano is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 5 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
South Australia
last on record 2009
Giuliano is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
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