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Joud vs Journee

American parents have registered 18,334 Journees since 1880, against 677 Jouds. Journee is still ahead, with 1,207 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Joud against Journee, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Joud Journee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Journee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1986 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Joud had 5 and Journee had 63.

Side by side

  Joud Journee
Total US births 67718,334
Most in one year 701,536
Babies in 2025 701,207
Estimated living today 67018,000
Median age today 66
Peak year 20242021
Best rank 4,294th girls196th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd258th
First recorded 20021986
Girls / boys 372 / 30518,152 / 182

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Joud Journee
England and Wales 22710

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Joud and Journee.