How rare is the name Juanita?

98,833 people in the United States have the first name Juanita, about 1 in 3,056. It ranks #555 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JUANITA

#555

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
98,833
About
1 in 3,056
This common or more
60.4%
Who bears it

Of the 98,833 people named Juanita, 36.6% reported their origin as White, 34.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 23.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Juanita peaked in 1924, when 5,428 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1924
Births that year
5,428
In 2025*
61 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 208,675 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Juanita by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #97. The largest share of babies named Juanita, 30.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#543446
1890s#3451,392
1900s#2253,837
1910s#15420,953
1920s#9748,749
1930s#12436,201
1940s#19830,602
1950s#27525,742
1960s#36817,054
1970s#47810,237
1980s#6816,593
1990s#1,1593,630
2000s#2,0881,947
2010s#3,888876
2020s#4,498416
Before 19011%
Greatest Generation 1901–2730.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4530.4%
Baby boom 1946–6423%
Generation X 1965–808.8%
Millennials 1981–964.1%
Generation Z 1997–121.5%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Juanita is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Juanita has been most common in Oklahoma (2.9×), West Virginia (2.7×), and Arkansas (2.7×), and least common in New Hampshire (0.06×).

198,679 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Juanita

#553 Jim · 99,345#554 Brad · 99,078#556 Jeanette · 98,707#557 Angelina · 98,695

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Juanita, most common first.

#6,390 Juanito · 2,518#14,716 Junita · 796#26,603 Juanda · 349#33,297 Juanetta · 249#39,641 Juantia · 190#52,462 Juanitta · 107#53,155 Juanta · 102

Compare