Juana

88,951 people in America carry this name — ranked #597 of 923.

Carried mostly by the Millennials.

Say it WAH nuh

2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

W AA1 N AH0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 88,951 2020 Census
  • Rank #597 Familiar
  • Per 100,000 29.5 about 1 in 3,726 people
  • As a surname No not above the reporting threshold

The meaning and origin of Juana

Hebrew in origin, reading literally as “the Lord’s grace”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

Juana through the years

17,934 babies were given this name since 1880. The busiest year was 1994, with 265 of them.

80 90 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90s 00 10 20

Most people carrying it were born in the 1990s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

Middle names for Juana

Two syllables sit with almost anything — the join matters more than the length.

Better avoided

  • Juana Jennifer — same opening
  • Juana Ashley — runs together
  • Juana Amanda — runs together

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

Never out of use

Juana has been given in every decade on record — no fashion lifted it and none has dropped it.

Boys or girls: who is called Juana?

0.5% men
88,534 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Who has this name today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 1.1%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 0.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 97.3%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.5%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

Same syllables and stress as Juana

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 2 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

This name in other languages

  • Joan English
  • Jovana Ill
  • Joanna Eng.|Pol
  • Jovanna Portuguese
  • Johanne German
  • Johanna Ger.|Esth
  • Gianina Italian
  • Giovanna Italian
  • Joaniniha Portuguese
  • Giovannina Italian

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

The states where Juana is most common

In Texas the name is given 3.1 times as often as it is across the country.

  • Texas ×3.1
  • California ×2.7
  • Alabama ×1.8
  • Florida ×1.8
  • Nebraska ×1.7

Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.

The most common full names

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

Spellings of Juana

Juana is how 12% of them spell it — 744,647 people answer to the sound.

  • Juan 88%
  • Juana 12%

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Hebrew origin