Jaunita
Jaunita was last recorded in 1991, when 8 babies were given it; 6,893 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Jaunita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 64 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaunita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaunita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,683, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
285 babies in 1924, the peak
Jaunita peaked in 1924, when 285 girls were given it, #410 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #9,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,961 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,166 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,426 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,793 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,011 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,911 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,328 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #6,512 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,659 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,830 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,324 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,355 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,142 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,761 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,452 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,994 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,317 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,434 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,961 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,832 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,040 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,488 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 61 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 64 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 60 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 74 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 62 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 69 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 90 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 65 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 77 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 85 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 79 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 100 | #703 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 108 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 90 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 111 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 116 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 136 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 123 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 144 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 140 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 158 | #522 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 143 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 179 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1929 | 222 | #442 | 0.20 |
| 1928 | 253 | #425 | 0.22 |
| 1927 | 231 | #458 | 0.19 |
| 1926 | 263 | #424 | 0.22 |
| 1925 | 257 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1924 | 285 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1923 | 284 | #398 | 0.24 |
| 1922 | 237 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1921 | 233 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1920 | 242 | #431 | 0.20 |
| 1919 | 188 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 193 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 145 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 152 | #538 | 0.15 |
| 1915 | 113 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 96 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 58 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 62 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 34 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 28 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 26 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 31 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 18 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 16 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,035 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,001 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 15 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,493 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaunita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaunita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaunita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaunita, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 23% of the 6,893 Americans ever recorded as Jaunita. The median Jaunita alive today is 76 years old; half are between 64 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 1,096 people named Jaunita (1,096 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,260 born in the U.S. The Census count is 52% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 554 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 697 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 244 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 94 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaunita born?
The states with the most babies named Jaunita are Oklahoma, Texas and Georgia, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 636 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Texas | 570 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 466 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| West Virginia | 395 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Missouri | 302 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Arkansas | 282 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Alabama | 279 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 261 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Tennessee | 236 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 233 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Jaunita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaunita is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 4.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaunita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,730 babies since 1880, Jaunita is the most given (79% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaunita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaunita and names like it
- Compare Jaunita and JanitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJaunita peaked in 1924.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaunita since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Jaunita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jaunita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.