Sanjuanita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sanjuanita has been given to 3,476 babies in the U.S. since 1928. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 134 recorded.
Babies named Sanjuanita, 2013
1 in 608,000
Sanjuanita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sanjuanita?
Sanjuanita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,196 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sanjuanita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanjuanita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sanjuanitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanjuanita was born before 1967 — so the typical Sanjuanita is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 28.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,177
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (982).
Is Sanjuanita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1952 (134)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sanjuanita
Sanjuanita is the most-used spelling, taking 60.4% of the 5,759 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Sanjuanita60.4%3,476
- Sanjuana39.6%2,283
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Sanjuanita is used
Across 1910–2025, Sanjuanita was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 11,098 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 4,167
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Sanjuanita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sanjuanita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sanjuanita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Sanjuanita
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sanjuanita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Sanjuanita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.