Julia

name

Etymology: From Latin Iūlia, feminine form of the Roman gens name Iūlius. Further popularized by early Christian saints. Doublet of Julie.

1. A female given name from Latin.

   “Salute Philologus & Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them.”

   “"Julia!" when alone he would exclaim; "what a sweet sounding and romantic name: Julia! what music and magic in its sound! 'tis a name worthy only the fairest and purest of creation!”

2. 89 Julia, a main belt asteroid; named for Saint Julia of Corsica.
3. A village in central Poland.
4. A French surname.
5. A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.

   “And then came Julia, a general purpose programming language designed according to the requirements of scientific and technical computing, providing performance comparable to C/C++, and with an environment productive enough for prototyping like the high-level dynamic language of Python.”