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Giulietta vs Giuseppe

American parents have registered 6,365 Giuseppes since 1880, against 727 Giuliettas. Giuseppe is still ahead, with 122 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giulietta against Giuseppe, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giulietta Giuseppe

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

Giuseppe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1905 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Giulietta had 101 and Giuseppe had 121.

Side by side

  Giulietta Giuseppe
Total US births 7276,365
Most in one year 101130
Babies in 2025 51122
Estimated living today 7205,700
Median age today 728
Peak year 20161975
Best rank 1,972nd girls725th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th1,459th
First recorded 19701905
Girls / boys 727 / 00 / 6,365

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 Giuseppes alive today are over 28; half the Giuliettas are over 7. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Giulietta Giuseppe
Italy 402102,723
France 1102,525
Belgium 6645
Switzerland 63492
England and Wales 46428
Poland 372

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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