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Juno vs Junor

American parents have registered 2,207 Junos since 1880, against 8 Junors. Juno is still ahead, with 233 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juno against Junor, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juno 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

Of the 30 years in which either name was published, Juno for 29 years and Junor for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Juno Junor
Total US births 2,2078
Most in one year 2338
Babies in 2025 233under 5
Estimated living today 2,2000
Median age today 598
Peak year 20251927
Best rank 1,250th girls3,151st boys
Rank in 2025 1,250thunranked
First recorded 19191927
Girls / boys 1,770 / 4370 / 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 Junos are over 5. That is 93 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: Juno and Junor.