girls:
8 births since 2019
#5708 (0th percentile)
boys:
20 births since 1976
#4566 (0th percentile)
overall:
28 births since 1976
#7711 (0th percentile)
The name Jua is the #7,711 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,566 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,708 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 2019.
Jua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Jua is available in 4 out of the 44 years between 1976 and 2019 (3 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jua has been given predominantly to boys, with 71.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Jua were boys. Interestingly, until around 2012, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1976 to 2011), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2012 to 2019).
For boys, Jua reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #692) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
For girls, Jua reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #942) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jua".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jua. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Jua is pronounced as JUE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hue-AH, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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