Girl

Juanita

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,794
61 girls
2015
#2,068
rank
1950
#115
rank

Juanita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #48 in 1924.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #48 in 1924; #2,794 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Juanita in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,794 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #48.

Babies in 2025
61
Since 1880
208,675
Years on record
146

Babies named Juanita, every year since 1880

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Girls

Juanita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #48 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 5,404 (1924).

About the name Juanita

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Janita (1,837), Junita (1,314), Jonita (799), Johnita (576), Juanetta (247), Juanitta (62), Juniata (27), Jonnita (26), Joanita (10).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Juanita by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Ohio5#1,568—
California12#1,794#2,862

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202561#2,794——
202468#2,598——
202380#2,298——
202268#2,593——
202164#2,690——
202075#2,361——
201978#2,313——
201868#2,574——
201784#2,245——
201675#2,452——
201595#2,068——
201482#2,279——
2013102#1,944——
201281#2,326——
201199#1,992——
2010112#1,826——
2009121#1,789——
2008164#1,443——
2007181#1,347——
2006162#1,400——
2005174#1,283——
2004205#1,115——
2003193#1,133——
2002221#998——
2001258#888——
2000268#836——
1999278#788——
1998299#731——
1997315#687——
1996315#689——
1995317#672——
1994372#604——
1993412#577——
1992434#542——
1991436#536——
1990446#5346#7,615
1989496#478——
1988493#4546#6,835
1987524#4275#7,547
1986583#394——
1985598#380——
1984650#35510#4,063
1983684#337——
1982849#287——
1981874#2815#6,770
1980810#3046#5,888
1979893#2718#4,620
1978866#267——
1977863#2757#4,850
1976845#2737#4,666
1975936#2606#5,114
19741,040#2466#4,931
19731,037#2455#5,469
19721,135#2416#4,710
19711,302#2307#4,166
19701,261#2477#4,043
19691,220#2438#3,443
19681,357#2206#3,922
19671,445#21114#2,203
19661,533#2047#3,378
19651,666#1978#3,112
19641,806#2037#3,446
19631,915#1958#3,182
19621,943#1938#3,169
19611,988#19010#2,800
19602,095#18410#2,772
19592,197#1768#3,148
19582,161#1749#2,927
19572,404#1569#2,915
19562,468#152——
19552,502#14510#2,670
19542,552#1448#3,066
19532,708#1339#2,813
19522,847#12514#2,114
19512,789#1269#2,765
19503,028#11510#2,505
19493,148#1078#2,903
19483,207#1075#3,931
19473,112#11012#2,310
19462,985#11010#2,477
19452,654#10813#1,974
19442,960#9411#2,254
19433,085#9123#1,477
19423,074#9020#1,609
19413,044#8426#1,319
19403,174#7831#1,221
19393,212#7724#1,376
19383,129#8030#1,209
19373,179#7526#1,325
19363,183#7523#1,405
19353,344#7222#1,471
19343,662#6434#1,139
19333,551#6323#1,431
19324,012#5825#1,407
19314,131#5740#1,071
19304,512#5739#1,127
19294,412#6022#1,585
19284,734#5839#1,137
19275,076#5519#1,843
19264,981#5219#1,821
19255,232#4921#1,712
19245,404#4824#1,599
19235,048#5117#1,983
19224,643#5715#2,194
19214,779#5710#2,895
19204,238#6116#2,095
19193,636#7311#2,589
19183,260#8512#2,463
19172,929#8710#2,639
19162,644#909#2,828
19152,398#928#2,952
19141,792#946#3,089
19131,443#957#2,382
19121,182#1037#2,144
1911862#107——
1910732#1155#1,723
1909668#109——
1908572#118——
1907443#148——
1906388#153——
1905360#157——
1904344#159——
1903304#164——
1902234#191——
1901251#175——
1900273#189——
1899192#199——
1898176#218——
1897175#210——
1896165#216——
1895154#221——
1894111#260——
1893108#254——
1892133#224——
189189#258——
189089#265——
188967#295——
188877#263——
188761#271——
188652#286——
188551#276——
188441#302——
188324#379——
188225#353——
188125#322——
188023#336——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).