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Juvenal

#8,565 in 2025Boys' name

Youthful

Juvenal has been given to 1,267 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #8,565 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Juvenal, 2025

1 in 368,000

Juvenal over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Juvenal: meaning, origin, and history

Youthful

Latin

What Juvenal means

Juvenal means “youthful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Juvenal is used in English and Portuguese. Its origins include Latin.

Juvenal comes through Latin Iuvenālis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Juvenal is pronounced /ʒu.veˈnaw/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,267 boys were recorded with the name Juvenal between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,806 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,264 in 2020 to #8,565 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,865 in 2015 to #8,565 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Juvenal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,565
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Juvenal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juvenal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juvenals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Juvenal was born before 1994 — so the typical Juvenal is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,218
People you could plausibly meet
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1990s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (349).

Is Juvenal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,805
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,699
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,700
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.5%
Peak was 1991 (44)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,806
1991

Where Juvenal is used

Across 1910–2025, Juvenal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 63,894 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Juvenal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Juvenal around the world

Where Juvenal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–1974
    #2,376
    in 1974

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Juvenal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,565
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,699
Best rank ever
#1,806
1991
Peak year
1991
44 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,267
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Juvenal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Juvenal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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