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Juliana vs Juliane

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 2,162 Julianes. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juliana against Juliane, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juliana Juliane

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

Juliana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Juliana had 130 and Juliane had 63.

Side by side

  Juliana Juliane
Total US births 67,7972,162
Most in one year 2,22584
Babies in 2025 1,2036
Estimated living today 64,0002,000
Median age today 1848
Peak year 20071970
Best rank 162nd girls1,285th girls
Rank in 2025 256th13,208th
First recorded 18811941
Girls / boys 67,748 / 492,162 / 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 Julianes alive today are over 48; half the Julianas are over 18. That is 30 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 Juliana Juliane
France 5,4603,275
Norway 178441
England and Wales 6093
Belgium 24836
Poland 2262

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: Juliana and Juliane.