Girls' name · since 1960
Joanita
10 babies named Joanita in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1960. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 10
- total births
- 1960–1964
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
10 girls have been named Joanita since 1960, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Joanita has 10 recorded births among girls since 1960, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1960 to 1964.
- 10 total births
- 1960–1964 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joanita's 10 recorded births place it above 21% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joanita's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Joanita splits its recorded history at 1964: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1960 (5 births).
Joanita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1960–1964
- Peak year (1960)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Joanita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Joanita's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Joanita births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 10 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1960–1964 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joanita: Baby Name Since 1960 - 10 Births, Peak 1960." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joanita. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joanita draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.