Girls' name · peaked in 1924

Juanita name popularity since 1925

157,853 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Juanita. Half of them were born in 1946 or earlier, so the typical Juanita is about 80 years old in 2026. Juanita peaked in 1924 as the #48 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 157,853; Named Juanita, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1924; #48 for girls that year
Typical age: About 80; Median birth year 1946
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,794 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.5% girls; 157,019 girls · 834 boys
Most popular in: West Virginia; 2.48× its national share

Peak year is the year Juanita made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Juanita births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Juanita peaked earlier, in 1924.

Steepest fall: Between 2004 and 2009, Juanita's share of baby girls fell by 41%, from 1 in 8,960 to 1 in 15,200.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Juanita's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Juanita.

Decade by decade

Babies named Juanita in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	24,435	120	–
1930s	35,915	286	#72
1940s	30,443	159	#108
1950s	25,656	86	#145
1960s	16,968	86	#197
1970s	10,178	59	#260
1980s	6,561	32	#380
1990s	3,624	6	#672
2000s	1,947	0	#1,283
2010s	876	0	#2,068
2020–25	416	0	#2,794

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

40.2% of babies named Juanita from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Juanita is most popular

The index compares Juanita's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Juanita.

State	Index	Babies
West Virginia	2.48×	3,403
New Mexico	2.45×	2,106
Arkansas	2.41×	3,856
Kentucky	2.32×	6,049
Alabama	2.10×	5,796

Names with a similar story

Of the other 499 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Juanita's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Juanita.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Juanita (1924).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data