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Giulietta vs Giuseppina

American parents have registered 798 Giuseppinas since 1880, against 727 Giuliettas. But in 2025 it was Giulietta that was commoner, 51 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Giulietta against Giuseppina, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Giulietta Giuseppina

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 76 years in which either name was published, Giuseppina for 53 years and Giulietta for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Giulietta Giuseppina
Total US births 727798
Most in one year 10137
Babies in 2025 518
Estimated living today 720680
Median age today 747
Peak year 20161975
Best rank 1,972nd girls2,232nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,130th10,917th
First recorded 19701908
Girls / boys 727 / 0798 / 0

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 Giuseppinas alive today are over 47; half the Giuliettas are over 7. That is 40 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 Giulietta Giuseppina
Italy 4024,623
France 110690
England and Wales 4612

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: Giulietta and Giuseppina.