Journey
About 22,893 American babies have been named Journey since 1981, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 411th. About 23,000 Journeys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Journey boys named Journey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 22,893
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 226th
- Rank in 2025
- 411th
- First recorded
- 1981
- Girls / boys
- 20,882 / 2,011
How old the living Journeys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 22,893 babies given the name since 1981, about 23,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
From journey at the end of the 20th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Journey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Journey is most concentrated in Nevada (2.8×), Hawaii (2.4×), Georgia (2.3×), Oklahoma (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular girls’ names the year Journey peaked:
Journey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Journey | 47 | 2,411th |
| England and Wales boys | Journey | 4 | 3,959th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Journey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.