# Juvenal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/juvenal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,267 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,267 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Latin Iuvenālis.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,799 |
| 2012 | 14 | 6,142 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,433 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,774 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,869 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,471 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,657 |
| 2018 | 18 | 5,199 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,972 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,270 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,347 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,308 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,214 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,375 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,569 |

## In other languages

- French: Juvénal
- Portuguese: Juvenal
- Spanish: Juvenal

## People named Juvenal

- Juvénal Habyarimana, 2nd President of Rwanda (1937–1994)
- Juvenal Amarijo, Brazilian footballer (1923-2009)
- Juvenal of Jerusalem, bishop of Jerusalem
- Juvenal Edjogo Owono, Equatorial Guinean association football player and manager
- Juvenal Olmos, Chilean footballer
- Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussionist (1944–2016)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.