Name Yula Gender Feminine Usage English (Rare) Pronounced Pron. /ˈju.lə/ Edit Status Status Meaning & History Variant of Eula or a feminine form of Yul and Yule (the latter of the two, as evidence shows, was used as a given name in the Middle Ages).It has also been speculated that a woman named Yula possibly gave her name to the Scottish island of Islay.