In 2025, 1,203 US girls were named Juliana, making it the 256th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #252 in 2024. That is 67 fewer than the 1,270 girls named Juliana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #146, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,224, in 2007. For comparison, it was #168 in 2015 and #862 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Juliana in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 67,797 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 20,067 babies named Juliana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,501 US girls were named Juliana; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 2,003. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,336 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Juliana ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #112 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Julia (477,993 babies since 1880), Julianna (52,311 babies since 1880), Liana (20,666 babies since 1880) and Giuliana (12,081 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jolina, Julieana and Julliana are summarised on this page.
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