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Juna vs Juno

American parents have registered 2,207 Junos since 1880, against 1,044 Junas. Juno is still ahead, with 233 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Juna Juno

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 82 years in which either name was published, Juna for 54 years and Juno for 28 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Juna Juno
Total US births 1,0442,207
Most in one year 50233
Babies in 2025 50233
Estimated living today 8602,200
Median age today 105
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 3,167th girls1,250th girls
Rank in 2025 3,167th1,250th
First recorded 19171919
Girls / boys 1,039 / 51,770 / 437

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 Junos are over 5. That is 5 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 Juno
Switzerland 1,501214
England and Wales 391,415
Belgium 374303
France 195275

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 Juno.