1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 68 girls were named Juanita, about 1 in every 23,723.
- It peaked in 1924 with 5,404 babies, ranked #48.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 207,621 girls have been named Juanita since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Juanita per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.1Greatest1901–27
- 3.1Silent1928–45
- 1.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 63,843 babies, 3.12 per 1,000. Silent: 63,053 babies, 3.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 47,854 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,208 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,482 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,131 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 939 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Spanish Juanita, from Juana + -ita (“-ette”), from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Janet, Jeanette, Jeannette, Shanae, and Sinead.
- A female given name from Spanish.
- Origin
- Spanish
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Juanita, CC BY-SA 4.0.