Juanita
Juanita is a girl's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 48th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 86,000 Juanitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Juanita boys named Juanita
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 208,675
- Estimated living today
- 86,000
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 48th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,778th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 207,684 / 991
How old the living Juanitas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 208,675 babies given the name since 1880, about 86,000 are alive — 41 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 50,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
From Spanish Juanita, from Juana + -ita (“-ette”), from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה, the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן which produced John and its many doublets.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Juanitas
- Juanita Moore (1914–2014)American actress
- Juanita Castro (1933–2023)sister of Fidel Castro, stateswoman
- Juanita M. Kreps (1921–2010)United States Secretary of Commerce
- Juanita Hall (1901–1968)American musical theatre and film actress; singer, recording artist
- Juanita du Plessis (born 1972)South African singer
- Juanita Millender-McDonald (1938–2007)Congresswoman
People named Juanita with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Juanita is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Juanita is most concentrated in Oklahoma (2.9×), West Virginia (2.7×), Arkansas (2.7×), New Mexico (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Juanita peaked:
Juanita elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Juanita | 1,025 | 515th |
| England and Wales girls | Juanita | 180 | 1,295th |
| Ireland girls | Juanita | 29 | 432nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Juanita among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Juanita | 26 | 71 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Juanita lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,226 women called Juanita were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Juanita | 37 | 0.166 | 561 |
| Ourense | Juanita | 21 | 0.132 | 586 |
| Tarragona | Juanita | 54 | 0.124 | 703 |
| Barcelona | Juanita | 337 | 0.111 | 670 |
| León | Juanita | 23 | 0.100 | 772 |
| Palencia | Juanita | 7 | 0.088 | 783 |
Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Juanita against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.