Juliana

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

I came across Juliana. I think it's pretty. I also found that it has a variant of "Yuliana" that's on the top 1000. I think it's because a
"J" is often given a "Y" sound in some languages. WDYT of Juliana and Yuliana?

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I don't like Juliana, Yuliana (yuck), or Julianna, but I LOVE Julianne.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

I think Juliana is beautiful. I don't really like Yuliana though.

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

For me Juliana has the same pronounciation as Yuliana, because my language has writes 'j' for the English 'y' sound (and has no j sound). ^^ I do prefer the spelling Juliana, though.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I hate Yuliana. Juliana used to kind of sort of agree with me, until I came to know a huge bitch by that name.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I really like Julia, but I dislike but Juliana and Yuliana. I do prefer Yuliana, though, and in that case I read it as in You, not J.
But in some countries J's are read as in "You"

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Juliana is a contender for possible names for future daughters on my list! I love it, and my mom does too! My mom hardly ever likes my names.

[sweetrhythms.livejournal.com]

Juliana would be okay but I really don't like Yuliana...the poor kid would be called YULE-E-ANNA all the time.

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

I like the name Juliana a lot. I've got a friend from Brazil named Juliana. I hate all spelling variations of it, though.

[ghost-nymph.livejournal.com]

juliana is okay. no to yuliana.

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

[Language geek alert] Actually, English didn't have a j sound until the Middle ages - J sounded much like Y until that point. After studying Hebrew for long periods, I find myself calling my husband 'Yonatan' rather than Jonathan ;)

I quite like both of them, it's a very pretty name :)

[bohemianvegan.livejournal.com]

That's right, the letter "J" was a variant of "I". I didn't know that it was a "Y" sound. That does make sense because Jesus was known as Yeshua or something like that.