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Juliet

#274 in the US in 2025

Where Juliet stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#274girls’ names · US 2025

Juliet was the 274th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 1,136 births.

peak 2016 · 1,397188019532025

Its moment was 2016, when 1,397 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#274US rank, 2025 (girls)
1,136US births in 2025
#227its best US rank, in 2017
2016peak year — 1,397 births
37,966US births since 1880
1,086NZ births since 1936
363E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Juliet's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Juliet was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Juliet in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.04080
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Juliet in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Juliet in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Juliet has been registered 1,086 times since 1936, peaking in 1972 with 31 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.067135
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Juliet in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Juliet in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Juliet was registered 363 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2019 with 67 births. It ranked #661 for girls in 2025 on 57 births.

20200.01224
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Juliet in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1880#54710
1890#69315
1900#94116
1910#87724
1920#73995
1930#1,04150
1940#79080
1950#91694
1960#779172
1970#504393
1980#853181
1990#1,120156
2000#623405
2010#2851,142
2020#3061,038

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Juliet most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California6,421
New York3,783
Texas3,578
Florida2,014
Pennsylvania1,462
New Jersey1,417
Illinois1,070
Massachusetts907
Ohio899
Virginia800

Questions about Juliet

How popular is the name Juliet?

Juliet ranked #274 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 1,136 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Juliet most popular?

Juliet peaked in 2016, when 1,397 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Juliet rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Juliet has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 2016, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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