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Junita

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Junita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192641 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1912
1,314people given the name
Babies named Junita, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,314 girls have been named Junita in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 41 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 22%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Junita
1910s109
1920s294
1930s241
1940s168
1950s139
1960s132
1970s122
1980s92
1990s17

In 1926, its biggest year

Junita was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.

Names that rose and fell with Junita

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.