How Many People Are Named Juliet?

34,383

people named Juliet are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 9,940 people in the US has this name

Based on 37,971 babies named Juliet in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,172

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#616

See the top 100

Peak Year

2016

1,402 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: joo-lee-ET, JOOL-yət
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Anglicized form of JULIETTE or GIULIETTA. This spelling was first used by Shakespeare for the lover of Romeo in his play 'Romeo and Juliet' (1596).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

IuliaJuliaYuliyaGhjuliaJulijaJulieLiaLiekeJoolsJulesJulietteJulittaJuliJuliska

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Juliet in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Juliet alive today is about 21 years old, and 76% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 28 in 2025.

Under 30 26,216
76.2%
30 to 59 5,490
16%
60 and over 2,676
7.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Juliet first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2016, to 1,402 babies. In 2025, 1,136 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Juliet has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #228, in 2016 to 2017. In 2025 it ranked #274.

Girls
Rank in 2025#274
Best rank#228 (2016 to 2017)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#245 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Juliet alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Juliet were born in California than in any other state: about 6,149 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Juliet was given 1.7 times as often in New York, 1.6 times in New Jersey and 1.5 times in California.

California 6,149
Texas 3,478
New York 3,370
Florida 1,979
New Jersey 1,367
Pennsylvania 1,349
Illinois 1,000
Ohio 847
Massachusetts 828
Virginia 766
Michigan 714
Arizona 662
North Carolina 642
Georgia 600
Washington 564
Maryland 555
Colorado 508
Indiana 403
Louisiana 380
Connecticut 372
Utah 367
Tennessee 349
Minnesota 334
Missouri 331
Wisconsin 290
Oregon 274
Nevada 264
South Carolina 236
Oklahoma 207
Alabama 191
Kansas 186
Kentucky 170
New Mexico 146
Idaho 129
Arkansas 104
Nebraska 100
District of Columbia 96
Iowa 84
Hawaii 62
Mississippi 56
Rhode Island 55
Maine 53
New Hampshire 47
Alaska 38
Delaware 36
West Virginia 14
Montana 11
South Dakota 9
North Dakota 5

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