Juliet
The girl's name Juliet has been in the national records since 1880, with 37,971 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 274th. About 34,000 Juliets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Juliet boys named Juliet
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 37,971
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 228th
- Rank in 2025
- 274th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 37,966 / 5
How old the living Juliets are
born that year still alive today
Of the 37,971 babies given the name since 1880, about 34,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 21,000 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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 Latin
diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Juliets
- Juliet Mills (born 1941)British actress
- Juliet Landau (born 1965)American actress
- Juliet Ibrahim (born 1986)Ghanaian actress, film producer, and singer
- Juliet Stevenson (born 1956)English actor
- Juliet Cuthbert (born 1964)Jamaican sprinter and politician
- Juliet Berto (1947–1990)actress, film director
- Juliet Rylance (born 1979)British actress
- Juliet Anderson (1938–2010)American pornographic actress and director
People named Juliet with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Juliet is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Juliet is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), California (2.0×), Florida (1.8×), Arizona (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Juliet peaked:
Juliet elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Juliet | 1,806 | 487th |
| Ireland girls | Juliet | 618 | 180th |
| France girls | Juliet | 335 | 1,810th |
| Scotland girls | Juliet | 290 | 207th |
| Belgium girls | Juliet | 219 | 457th |
| Poland girls | Juliet | 19 birth registrations | 438th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Juliet | 18 | 358th |
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.
Juliet: rank by region
In 2025, Juliet was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Juliet | 416 | 12 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Juliet appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (332nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Juliet by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 3 | 494th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Juliet 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 | Juliet | 122 | 298 |
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 Juliet lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 491 women called Juliet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Juliet | 12 | 0.069 | 1,092 |
| Girona | Juliet | 21 | 0.051 | 1,271 |
| Lleida | Juliet | 10 | 0.045 | 1,322 |
| Barcelona | Juliet | 116 | 0.038 | 1,430 |
| Balears, Illes | Juliet | 22 | 0.035 | 1,661 |
| Navarra | Juliet | 11 | 0.032 | 1,727 |
Listed in 21 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 31 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
Juliet 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.