Juanita
Juanita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 68 births. Its best rank was 48th, in 1924.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 680.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19245,404 births
- Best rank
- #48in 1924
- Since 1880
- 207,621people given the name
The story in the numbers
207,621 girls have been named Juanita in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 5,404 births — 0.43% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 68 births in 2024, against 5,404 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 123 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Juanita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 446 | |
| 1890s | 1,392 | |
| 1900s | 3,837 | |
| 1910s | 20,878 | |
| 1920s | 48,547 | |
| 1930s | 35,915 | |
| 1940s | 30,444 | |
| 1950s | 25,654 | |
| 1960s | 16,969 | |
| 1970s | 10,178 | |
| 1980s | 6,559 | |
| 1990s | 3,624 | |
| 2000s | 1,947 | |
| 2010s | 876 | |
| 2020s | 355 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Juanita was the 48th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Juanita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Charlinepeak 1928
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Onitapeak 1925
- Lavernepeak 1924
- Melbapeak 1924
- Jeanpeak 1927
- Virginiapeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.