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Juna vs Junie

American parents have registered 2,052 Junies since 1880, against 1,044 Junas. Junie is still ahead, with 152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juna against Junie, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juna Junie

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 129 years in which either name was published, Junie for 98 years and Juna for 31 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.

15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Juna Junie
Total US births 1,0442,052
Most in one year 50152
Babies in 2025 50152
Estimated living today 8601,200
Median age today 107
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 3,167th girls1,484th girls
Rank in 2025 3,167th1,484th
First recorded 19171880
Girls / boys 1,039 / 51,884 / 168

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 Junas alive today are over 10; half the Junies are over 7. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Juna Junie
France 195135
England and Wales 3936

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: Juna and Junie.