Humanverse

Juanita vs Juanpablo

American parents have registered 208,675 Juanitas since 1880, against 2,050 Juanpablos. Juanita is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juanita against Juanpablo, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juanita Juanpablo

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 146 years in which either name was published, Juanita for 142 years and Juanpablo for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Juanita Juanpablo
Total US births 208,6752,050
Most in one year 5,428145
Babies in 2025 6138
Estimated living today 86,0002,000
Median age today 6815
Peak year 19242011
Best rank 48th girls1,209th boys
Rank in 2025 2,778th3,128th
First recorded 18801977
Girls / boys 207,684 / 9910 / 2,050

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 Juanitas alive today are over 68; half the Juanpablos are over 15. That is 53 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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