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Juanita

Rank in 2024
#2,581
Born in 2024
68
Peak year
1924 · #48
Origin
Spanish

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its 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.

  1. 3.1
    Greatest
  2. 3.1
    Silent
  3. 1.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.7
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

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.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Janita

    Rank
    #11,683
    Born '24
    8
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19632024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Jaunita

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19242024