girls:
50.6k births since 1900
#573 (90th percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1989
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
50.6k births since 1900
#1069 (86th percentile)
The name Julianna is the #1,069 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50,630 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 86.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #573 (90.0% percentile) for all time with 50,604 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1989.
Julianna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Julianna is available in 119 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (119 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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 Julianna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Julianna reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 81.7% percentile (ranked #174) with 893 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 906 births per million (ranked 81.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Julianna ranks #311 for girls (67.2% percentile) with 532 births per million, which is 58.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Julianna reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Julianna".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Juliana. View all variations of Juliana.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Julianna", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 31 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Juliana" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Juliana..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Julianna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.8% confident that Julianna is pronounced as jue-lee-A-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUE-lee-A-nuh, at 34.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Julianna? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Julianna. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Julianna, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH UW0 L IY0 AE1 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker