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Jourdyn vs Journee

American parents have registered 18,334 Journees since 1880, against 947 Jourdyns. Journee is still ahead, with 1,207 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jourdyn 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

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Journee for 30 years and Jourdyn for 7 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jourdyn Journee
Total US births 94718,334
Most in one year 491,536
Babies in 2025 71,207
Estimated living today 94018,000
Median age today 146
Peak year 20182021
Best rank 3,497th girls196th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd258th
First recorded 19891986
Girls / boys 811 / 13618,152 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jourdyns alive today are over 14; half the Journees are over 6. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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