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Journee vs Journei

American parents have registered 18,334 Journees since 1880, against 2,301 Journeis. Journee is still ahead, with 1,207 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Journee Journei

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 2007, when Journee had 112 and Journei had 33.

Side by side

  Journee Journei
Total US births 18,3342,301
Most in one year 1,536194
Babies in 2025 1,207149
Estimated living today 18,0002,300
Median age today 66
Peak year 20212021
Best rank 196th girls1,219th girls
Rank in 2025 258th1,443rd
First recorded 19861999
Girls / boys 18,152 / 1822,301 / 0

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.

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