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Juliana vs Julianna

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 52,311 Juliannas. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juliana against Julianna, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juliana Julianna

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 141 years in which either name was published, Juliana for 137 years and Julianna for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Juliana Julianna
Total US births 67,79752,311
Most in one year 2,2251,814
Babies in 2025 1,203779
Estimated living today 64,00051,000
Median age today 1818
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 162nd girls194th girls
Rank in 2025 256th398th
First recorded 18811900
Girls / boys 67,748 / 4952,285 / 26

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.

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 Juliana Julianna
France 5,4601,070
Poland 2263,319
England and Wales 609285
Belgium 24811
Ireland 97112
Scotland 193
Northern Ireland 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: Juliana and Julianna.