My name is Julianna and I just love my name! My stepcousin's cousin has a cousin named Julianna too! What's really ironic is that both our middle names are Rose! This name is becoming popular. I'm satisfied with my name.
Very beautiful name, I like this spelling the best.
-- Anonymous User 4/30/2006
This spelling is preferred in my opinion for at least two reasons. Julianna creates a balanced male/female name (due to the "anna") from an otherwise male-derived name (Julius). Even the pronunciation ("Jool-E-Anna") seems uniformly distributed. Conversely, "Juliana" is not as balanced and the "ana" pronunciation ("Oan-na") sounds unduly stuffy.
-- Anonymous User 5/23/2006
A famous bearer of this actress is Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966). She starred as Nurse Carol Hathaway on the medical drama "ER" for 6 years.
I LOVE this name. Although, if I was going to call her anything for short, I would call my daughter Julia not Julie, I would save Julie for the Julianne's and Juliann's. Julia is very pretty for Julianna's and Juliana's. But I'm not so very sure I would shorten Julianna or Juliana to Julia or Julie. I might just stick with Julianna and Juliana, they're just so pretty! I think they're almost TOO pretty to be shortened to anything like Julia. But some people do shorten their kid's name. I know 1 Julianna and 1 Julianne. Julianna goes by simply Julianna or sometimes she goes by Julia if she wants something quicker to write down. Julianne goes by Julie, but a lot of people call her Julia. I love all forms of this name, even the pet forms!
This is one of the rare combo names that sound nice, and the name is actually very pretty. I won't use it myself, as it isn't all that unusual or uncommon, and it will surely be shortened, which is almost a pity, as it sounds nice in its entirety.
This is my name, which I do very much appreciate. I'm Italian, but I know if my name was spelled Giuliana, most people would try to pronounce it "GOO-lee-AHN-a." It's also a bit annoying whenever someone spells it with one "n", but I like my name. I mostly go by "Julie" instead of "Julia" because Julia sounds too girly and that's just not in my personality.
-- Anonymous User 8/8/2010
Nice name, but I prefer Julia. It's much more simple and elegant.