Juliett is a variant of Juliet and Juliette, the French diminutive of Julia, a name from the Roman Julius family that is usually read as "youthful". Shakespeare's heroine made Juliet the ultimate romantic name, and the double-t spelling is the one used for the letter J in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Juliett stood at number 8265 in 2000 and reaches its best rank in 2025 at number 2913 with 58 births.