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Giuliana vs Giuseppe

American parents have registered 12,081 Giulianas since 1880, against 6,365 Giuseppes. Giuliana is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giuliana against Giuseppe, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giuliana Giuseppe

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

Of the 101 years in which either name was published, Giuseppe for 76 years and Giuliana for 25 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Giuliana Giuseppe
Total US births 12,0816,365
Most in one year 1,073130
Babies in 2025 287122
Estimated living today 12,0005,700
Median age today 1228
Peak year 20121975
Best rank 296th girls725th boys
Rank in 2025 914th1,459th
First recorded 19581905
Girls / boys 12,081 / 00 / 6,365

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 Giuseppes alive today are over 28; half the Giulianas are over 12. That is 16 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Giuliana Giuseppe
Italy 3,591102,723
France 2,0952,525
Switzerland 426492
Belgium 192645
England and Wales 93428
Ireland 37
Scotland 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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