Juanitá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Juanitá is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Juanita, from Juana + -ita (“-ette”), from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally.
- USUnited States1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 278K
- GYGuyana1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
98,833 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Juanita in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- SpanishJuanita(measured from records)
- Juana+(measured from records)
- Old SpanishJohanna(measured from records)
- Medieval LatinJohanna(measured from records)
- Koine GreekἸωάνναIōánna(measured from records)
- HebrewיוֹחָנָהYôḥānāh“God is gracious”(measured from records)
From Spanish Juanita, from Juana + -ita (“-ette”), from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Juanitá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 98,833 | 1 in 3.4K | 99K | Juanita | 388 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,519 | 1 in 11K | 1.5K | — | 29 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,226 | 1 in 41K | 1.2K | Juanita | 81 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 772 | 1 in 6.6K | 772 | — | 23 |
| BR Brazil | — | 761 | 1 in 278K | 850 | Juanita | 60 |
| GY Guyana | — | 186 | 1 in 4K | 186 | — | — |
| ML Mali | #148 | — | — | — | Juanita | 2 |
98,833 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Juanitá mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Juanita, from Juana + -ita (“-ette”), from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Is Juanitá a male or female name?
- Juanitá is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Juanitá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 99 thousand people named Juanitá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juanita.
- Where is Juanitá most common?
- Juanitá is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Juanitá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 98,833 people named Juanitá in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Juanitá compared with other names?
- In Mali, Juanitá is the 148th most common given name of 2,109 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juanit%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Juanitá” — the 148th most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.