In 2025, 185 US girls were named Juana, making it the 1,223rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 115 places from #1,108 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 221 girls named Juana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #485, reached in 1928. The most girls given the name in a single year was 265, in 1994. For comparison, it was #1,916 in 2015 and #615 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Juana in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 5 babies with the name. In all, 18,881 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,368 babies named Juana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,577 US girls were named Juana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 221. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,688 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Juana ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #409 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880), Jane (381,009 babies since 1880), Juanita (208,675 babies since 1880) and Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Xiana are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.