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Journee vs Journi

American parents have registered 18,334 Journees since 1880, against 5,101 Journis. Journee is still ahead, with 1,207 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Journee against Journi, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Journee Journi

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 33 years in which either name was published, Journee for 32 years and Journi for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Journee Journi
Total US births 18,3345,101
Most in one year 1,536541
Babies in 2025 1,207345
Estimated living today 18,0005,100
Median age today 65
Peak year 20212021
Best rank 196th girls567th girls
Rank in 2025 258th785th
First recorded 19861993
Girls / boys 18,152 / 1825,060 / 41

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Journee Journi
England and Wales 103

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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