July

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Etymology 1

From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove".

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Proper noun

July (plural Julies or Julys)

  2. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.
    Alternative forms: Jul, Jul., JUL, 7
    Holonyms: calendar year; year
    Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, June, August, September, October, November, December
    • 2025 March 28, Ryan J, “HDB Just Made It Easier For Young Couples To Buy Flats: But Not Everyone Is Happy”, in STACKED‎:
      From July 2025, the income assessment method for young couples buying BTO flats will be tweaked.
  3. (uncommon) A female given name from English.
    • 2004, Eric Arnesen, The Human Tradition in American Labor History, →ISBN, page 73:
      By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be his first of three wives. Riley continued to live close to his parents, James and Frances, whose house was just three doors down and who still had four of their own children living with them in addition to a grandson.
    • 2003, William C. Davis, Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America, →ISBN, page 153:
      In Prairie County, Arkansas, in March 1863, a black woman named July, born free in Tennessee but under indenture to a white man until she turned twenty-one, was brought before a circuit court when she was just short of reaching her age of freedom.
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Gregorian calendar monthsedit

Etymology 2

A translation of the French surname Juillet.

Proper noun

July (plural Julys)

  1. A surname from French.
Statistics
  • According to the 2010 United States Census, July is the 40261st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 544 individuals. July is most common among Black/African American (45.04%) White (39.89%) individuals.

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