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Djuan vs Djuna

American parents have registered 1,528 Djuans since 1880, against 375 Djunas. Djuan is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Djuan against Djuna, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Djuan Djuna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Djuan for 59 years and Djuna for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Djuan Djuna
Total US births 1,528375
Most in one year 53198
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 1,500340
Median age today 3261
Peak year 19901964
Best rank 1,564th boys738th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19601964
Girls / boys 7 / 1,521375 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Djunas alive today are over 61; half the Djuans are over 32. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Djuan and Djuna.