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Juanita vs Juaquin

American parents have registered 208,675 Juanitas since 1880, against 1,498 Juaquins. Juanita is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juanita against Juaquin, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juanita Juaquin

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

Juanita has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Juanita had 112 and Juaquin had 50.

Side by side

  Juanita Juaquin
Total US births 208,6751,498
Most in one year 5,42854
Babies in 2025 619
Estimated living today 86,0001,300
Median age today 6823
Peak year 19242006
Best rank 48th girls2,310th boys
Rank in 2025 2,778th8,243rd
First recorded 18801919
Girls / boys 207,684 / 9910 / 1,498

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 Juanitas alive today are over 68; half the Juaquins are over 23. That is 45 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 Juanita Juaquin
France 1,02520

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: Juanita and Juaquin.