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Julian vs Julie - What's the difference?

julian | julie |

As proper nouns the difference between julian and julie

is that julian is , cognate to julian while julie is popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.

julian

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus or Julian the Apostate.
  • derived, via Julianus from Julius
  • derived from Juliana. It was popular in medieval England but today mostly appears in the form Gillian.

    • Related terms

    * Julianna * Julianne

    Quotations

    * 1380s-1390s , : *: An housholdere, and that a greet, was he; / Seint Julian was he in his contree. / His breed, his ale, was alweys after oon, / A bettre envyned man was nowher noon. * 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press (1907), page 455: *: "I'll give the Boy a Name you must approve: / He shall be Julian !" "An heroic Name / Of some old fool!" said the indignant Dame. / "Fool!" said the Husband; "nay, a glorious Prince; / Nor have Mankind beheld his equal since, / He the whole World from Superstition Free'd / And left the Bigots neither Cross or Creed. * 1968 , The Second Window , McGraw - Hill, page 275: *: I was hoping the man would have some romantic name like Sebastian or Julian . However, as a surname Fletcher's all right.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • of, or relating to

    • Derived terms

    * Julian calendar * Julian epoch * Julian year

    External links

    * (Julian the Apostate) ----

    julie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.
  • * 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press 1907, page 455:
    • The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie' if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on ' Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
  • * 1917 , Cousin Julia , D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
    • "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie , in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
    "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
  • * 2000 Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Kind : page 156:
    • They were called Jim & Julie , professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.