Juvenal
Juvenal was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,565 among boys’ names; 1,267 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Juvenal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Juvenal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Juvenal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Juvenal is “a male given name from Latin.”
From Latin Iuvenālis.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Juvenal?
#8,565 among boys’ names, 2025
Juvenal fell from #5,865 in 2015 to #8,565 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 5.3 per million.
44 babies in 1991, the peak
Juvenal peaked in 1991, when 44 boys were given it, #1,806 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,565 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,370 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,209 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,303 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,342 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,264 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,967 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,195 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,653 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,466 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,865 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,770 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,428 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,136 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,792 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,596 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,665 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,621 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,314 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,725 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,567 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,405 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,400 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,853 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,653 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,843 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,429 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,971 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,517 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,640 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,269 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,231 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,424 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,018 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,806 | 21.8 |
| 1990 | 39 | #1,953 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,566 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,399 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,674 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,128 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,014 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,883 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,148 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,039 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,536 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,485 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,715 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,860 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,109 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,375 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,697 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,390 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,572 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,478 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,664 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,489 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,764 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,922 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,764 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,117 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,113 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,329 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,761 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,227 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,210 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,801 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,416 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,341 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,372 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,084 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,181 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,934 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,547 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,796 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,770 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,299 | 5.2 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,939 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,281 | 4.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,547 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,643 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Juvenal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Juvenal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Juvenal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Juvenal, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,267 Americans ever recorded as Juvenal. The median Juvenal alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,751 people named Juvenal (17 women and girls, 3,734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 56 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 153 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 378 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 156 |
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 Juvenal born?
The states with the most babies named Juvenal are California, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 480 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 118 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Juvenal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Juvenal is most over-represented in California: since 1922 it was given 3.0 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 boys’ 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 Juvenal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Juvenal
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 Juvenal and names like it
- Compare Juvenal and NigelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJuvenal peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Juvenal since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Juvenal: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Juvenal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Juvenal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.