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I've only ever heard it used for a male as a joke: two comedians, Canadian I think, reworked the assassination of Julius Caesar as a modern police-procedural thriller, to good effect. They challenge a suspicious-looking character and ask for his name - Mark Antony! He explains that he's just come from Caesar's funeral, where he made a speech: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. The cops say "Oh yeah? What have you got in that sack?" to which he replies, "Ears." It goes on like that, and every so often Caesar's wife, called Mrs Caesar, is to be heard wailing "I told him, Julie, Julie, don't go!"

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Perhaps for that reason, it has a kind of Mafia association for me: I can't think of any other possible nn for Julian or Julius which would be any better. The lesson seems to be that when choosing a name for a child, it's sensible to also consider the possible nns and if they don't seem right for whatever reason, then rather go for another name, because others will use them even if the family members don't.

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I think the perpetrators of the comedy routine were called Wayne and Schuster, but my spelling might be way off target.