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Juliana vs Julieanna

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 1,538 Julieannas. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Juliana Julieanna

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 1975, when Juliana had 157 and Julieanna had 10.

Side by side

  Juliana Julieanna
Total US births 67,7971,538
Most in one year 2,22571
Babies in 2025 1,20314
Estimated living today 64,0001,500
Median age today 1822
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 162nd girls2,555th girls
Rank in 2025 256th7,491st
First recorded 18811956
Girls / boys 67,748 / 491,538 / 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 Julieannas alive today are over 22; half the Julianas are over 18. That is 4 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.

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