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Juliana vs Julianne

American parents have registered 67,797 Julianas since 1880, against 30,617 Juliannes. Juliana is still ahead, with 1,203 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Juliana Julianne

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 84 years and Julianne for 57 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Juliana Julianne
Total US births 67,79730,617
Most in one year 2,225682
Babies in 2025 1,20396
Estimated living today 64,00027,000
Median age today 1837
Peak year 20071989
Best rank 162nd girls373rd girls
Rank in 2025 256th1,990th
First recorded 18811912
Girls / boys 67,748 / 4930,617 / 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 Juliannes alive today are over 37; half the Julianas are over 18. That is 19 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 Juliana Julianne
France 5,4601,680
Norway 178731
England and Wales 609151
Ireland 97379
Scotland 1956

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 Julianne.