girls:
35.7k births since 1880
#727 (87th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2016
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
35.7k births since 1880
#1324 (83rd percentile)
The name Juliet is the #1,324 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,704 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #727 (87.3% percentile) for all time with 35,699 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2016.
Juliet has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 2016 for boys).
The name Juliet has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Juliet reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 77.2% percentile (ranked #219) with 722 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 730 births per million (ranked 77.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Juliet ranks #277 for girls (70.8% percentile) with 607 births per million, which is 83.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Juliet reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #921) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Juliet".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Juliette. View all variations of Juliette.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Juliet", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 9 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Juliette" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Juliette..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Juliet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Juliet is pronounced as JUE-lee-eht, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUE-lee-EHT, at 41.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 UW1 L IY0 EH0 T) 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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