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Objectively it's a pleasant-sounding classical choice. But it's a name for which I had a years-long problem remembering if a cousin's wife was Julianne or Juliana upon greeting her as I only saw her once in a while; so I defaulted to How are you? (which comes off cold and careless) and frustrated me: Why can't I learn this? I had the same problem with (a classmate's wife) Claudine, Claudette, or Claudia? So I developed a bias, that if I ever named a female, I'd find a non-feminized name that the child might like and could live with. I'm not fond of plain Julie; and prefer short given names (3 syllables or fewer). So, no.