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June vs Junor

American parents have registered 209,183 Junes since 1880, against 8 Junors. June is still ahead, with 2,044 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: June against Junor, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

June Junor

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

June has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1927, when June had 5,811 and Junor had 8.

Side by side

  June Junor
Total US births 209,1838
Most in one year 6,7238
Babies in 2025 2,044under 5
Estimated living today 82,0000
Median age today 6698
Peak year 19251927
Best rank 39th girls3,151st boys
Rank in 2025 150thunranked
First recorded 18801927
Girls / boys 205,556 / 3,6270 / 8

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 Junors alive today are over 98; half the Junes are over 66. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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