In 2025, 61 US girls were named Juanita, making it the 2,794th most common girls’ name of the year, down 196 places from #2,598 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 68 girls named Juanita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #48, reached in 1924. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,404. For comparison, it was #2,068 in 2015 and #115 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Juanita in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 23 babies with the name. In all, 208,675 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 48,749 babies named Juanita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 721 US girls were named Juanita; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Juanita ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,568 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Janet (558,291 babies since 1880), Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880), Jana (46,223 babies since 1880) and Juana (18,881 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janita, Junita and Jonita are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Nettie and Nita.