Junior

At the 2020 census, 3,126 Americans bore the surname Junior — 9,871st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 95,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,126
Rank: 9,871st
How common: 1 in 95,600
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Junior described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 43.1%
White, not Hispanic 36.2%
Hispanic or Latino 13.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Junior

Vinícius Júnior (born 2000)Brazilian association football player
Fábio Júnior (born 1977)Brazilian association football player
Simão Mate Junior (born 1988)Mozambican association football player
Mark Boone Junior (born 1955)American actor
Caio Júnior (1965–2016)Brazilian association football player and manager
Ademilson Braga Bispo Junior (born 1994)Brazilian association football player
Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior (1943–2024)Brazilian racing driver
Marcos Júnior (born 1993)Brazilian association football player

People named Junior with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Junior

Also a first name

Junior has been given to 43,182 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1926. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.