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Junaid vs Junie

American parents have registered 2,052 Junies since 1880, against 557 Junaids. Junie is still ahead, with 152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Junaid 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 132 years in which either name was published, Junie for 105 years and Junaid for 27 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Junaid Junie
Total US births 5572,052
Most in one year 26152
Babies in 2025 23152
Estimated living today 5501,200
Median age today 187
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 4,072nd boys1,484th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th1,484th
First recorded 19801880
Girls / boys 0 / 5571,884 / 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 Junaids alive today are over 18; half the Junies are over 7. That is 11 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 Junaid Junie
England and Wales 1,61636
France 115135

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: Junaid and Junie.