Juanita
Juanita was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,794 among girls’ names; 208,675 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 83,400 Americans named Juanita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 55 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Juanita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Juanita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Juanita is “a female given name from Spanish.” Its etymology gives the senses “-ette” (-ita) and “God is gracious” (literally).
From Spanish Juanita, from Juana + -ita (“-ette”), from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Janet, Jeanette, Jeannette, Shanae, and Sinead.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Juanita?
#2,794 among girls’ names, 2025
Juanita fell from #2,068 in 2015 to #2,794 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.2 to 38.0 per million.
5,428 babies in 1924, the peak
Juanita peaked in 1924, when 5,428 babies were given it (5,404 girls, #48 among girls’ names). The 61 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,794 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,598 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,298 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,593 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,690 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,361 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,313 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,574 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,245 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 75 | #2,452 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,068 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,279 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,944 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,326 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,992 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,826 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,789 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,443 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,347 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 162 | #1,400 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,283 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 205 | #1,114 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 193 | #1,132 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 221 | #997 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 258 | #888 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 268 | #836 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 278 | #787 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 299 | #731 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 315 | #687 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 315 | #689 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 317 | #672 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 372 | #604 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 412 | #577 | 0.23 |
| 1992 | 434 | #542 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 436 | #536 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 446 | #533 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 496 | #478 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 493 | #454 | 0.28 |
| 1987 | 524 | #427 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 583 | #394 | 0.34 |
| 1985 | 598 | #380 | 0.35 |
| 1984 | 650 | #355 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 684 | #337 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 849 | #287 | 0.50 |
| 1981 | 874 | #281 | 0.52 |
| 1980 | 810 | #304 | 0.49 |
| 1979 | 893 | #271 | 0.56 |
| 1978 | 866 | #267 | 0.57 |
| 1977 | 863 | #275 | 0.56 |
| 1976 | 845 | #273 | 0.58 |
| 1975 | 936 | #260 | 0.64 |
| 1974 | 1,040 | #246 | 0.71 |
| 1973 | 1,037 | #245 | 0.71 |
| 1972 | 1,135 | #241 | 0.75 |
| 1971 | 1,302 | #230 | 0.78 |
| 1970 | 1,261 | #247 | 0.72 |
| 1969 | 1,220 | #243 | 0.72 |
| 1968 | 1,357 | #220 | 0.83 |
| 1967 | 1,445 | #211 | 0.88 |
| 1966 | 1,533 | #204 | 0.91 |
| 1965 | 1,666 | #197 | 0.94 |
| 1964 | 1,806 | #203 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 1,915 | #195 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 1,943 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 1,988 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 1960 | 2,095 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 2,197 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 2,161 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 2,404 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 2,468 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 2,502 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 2,552 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1953 | 2,708 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 1952 | 2,847 | #125 | 1.5 |
| 1951 | 2,789 | #126 | 1.5 |
| 1950 | 3,028 | #115 | 1.8 |
| 1949 | 3,148 | #107 | 1.8 |
| 1948 | 3,207 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1947 | 3,112 | #110 | 1.8 |
| 1946 | 2,985 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 1945 | 2,654 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 1944 | 2,960 | #94 | 2.2 |
| 1943 | 3,085 | #91 | 2.2 |
| 1942 | 3,074 | #90 | 2.3 |
| 1941 | 3,044 | #84 | 2.5 |
| 1940 | 3,174 | #78 | 2.8 |
| 1939 | 3,212 | #77 | 2.9 |
| 1938 | 3,129 | #80 | 2.8 |
| 1937 | 3,179 | #75 | 3.0 |
| 1936 | 3,183 | #75 | 3.1 |
| 1935 | 3,344 | #72 | 3.2 |
| 1934 | 3,662 | #64 | 3.5 |
| 1933 | 3,551 | #63 | 3.5 |
| 1932 | 4,012 | #58 | 3.8 |
| 1931 | 4,131 | #57 | 3.9 |
| 1930 | 4,512 | #57 | 4.0 |
| 1929 | 4,412 | #60 | 4.0 |
| 1928 | 4,734 | #58 | 4.1 |
| 1927 | 5,076 | #55 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 4,981 | #52 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5,232 | #49 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 5,404 | #48 | 4.3 |
| 1923 | 5,048 | #51 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 4,643 | #57 | 3.9 |
| 1921 | 4,779 | #57 | 3.9 |
| 1920 | 4,238 | #61 | 3.5 |
| 1919 | 3,636 | #73 | 3.2 |
| 1918 | 3,260 | #85 | 2.8 |
| 1917 | 2,929 | #87 | 2.7 |
| 1916 | 2,644 | #90 | 2.5 |
| 1915 | 2,398 | #92 | 2.4 |
| 1914 | 1,792 | #94 | 2.4 |
| 1913 | 1,443 | #95 | 2.3 |
| 1912 | 1,182 | #103 | 2.1 |
| 1911 | 862 | #107 | 2.1 |
| 1910 | 732 | #115 | 1.8 |
| 1909 | 668 | #109 | 1.9 |
| 1908 | 572 | #118 | 1.7 |
| 1907 | 443 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 1906 | 388 | #153 | 1.3 |
| 1905 | 360 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1904 | 344 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1903 | 304 | #164 | 1.2 |
| 1902 | 234 | #191 | 0.89 |
| 1901 | 251 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1900 | 273 | #189 | 0.91 |
| 1899 | 192 | #199 | 0.82 |
| 1898 | 176 | #218 | 0.68 |
| 1897 | 175 | #210 | 0.75 |
| 1896 | 165 | #216 | 0.69 |
| 1895 | 154 | #221 | 0.66 |
| 1894 | 111 | #260 | 0.50 |
| 1893 | 108 | #254 | 0.51 |
| 1892 | 133 | #224 | 0.63 |
| 1891 | 89 | #258 | 0.48 |
| 1890 | 89 | #265 | 0.47 |
| 1889 | 67 | #295 | 0.38 |
| 1888 | 77 | #263 | 0.43 |
| 1887 | 61 | #271 | 0.42 |
| 1886 | 52 | #286 | 0.36 |
| 1885 | 51 | #276 | 0.38 |
| 1884 | 41 | #302 | 0.32 |
| 1883 | 24 | #379 | 0.21 |
| 1882 | 25 | #353 | 0.23 |
| 1881 | 25 | #322 | 0.27 |
| 1880 | 23 | #336 | 0.25 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Juanita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Juanita has been given almost only to girls: 991 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Juanita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Juanita, and how old are they?
83,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 40% of the 208,675 Americans ever recorded as Juanita. The median Juanita alive today is 69 years old; half are between 55 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 98,833 people named Juanita (98,686 women and girls, 147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 101,362 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17,100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 994 |
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 Juanita born?
The states with the most babies named Juanita are Texas, California and Illinois, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30,324 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 11,846 | #1,794 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 9,331 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 8,951 | #1,567 | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 8,190 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 8,097 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Oklahoma | 7,848 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Alabama | 7,122 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 7,017 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 6,956 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Juanita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Juanita is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 Juanita 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 210,298 babies since 1880, Juanita is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 61 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Juanita
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 Juanita and names like it
- Compare Juanita and JunitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJuanita peaked in 1924.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Juanita since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Juanita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Juanita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Juanita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.