girls:
18.4k births since 1880
#1089 (81st percentile)
boys:
88 births since 1920
#4498 (2nd percentile)
overall:
18.5k births since 1880
#1886 (76th percentile)
The name Juana is the #1,886 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,472 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,089 (81.0% percentile) for all time with 18,384 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,498 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 1920.
Juana has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1920 for boys).
The name Juana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Juana reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 30.8% percentile (ranked #418) with 167 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 167 births per million (ranked 29.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Juana ranks #756 for girls (20.2% percentile) with 112 births per million, which is 67.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Juana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Juana".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Juana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.1% confident that Juana is pronounced as WAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HWAH-nuh, at 37.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like W AA1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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