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Journei vs Journii

American parents have registered 2,301 Journeis since 1880, against 735 Journiis. Journei is still ahead, with 149 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Journei against Journii, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Journei Journii

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

Journei has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Journei had 147 and Journii had 88.

Side by side

  Journei Journii
Total US births 2,301735
Most in one year 19488
Babies in 2025 14965
Estimated living today 2,300730
Median age today 65
Peak year 20212024
Best rank 1,219th girls2,150th girls
Rank in 2025 1,443rd2,645th
First recorded 19992009
Girls / boys 2,301 / 0735 / 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: Journei and Journii.