Junie vs Junita
American parents have registered 2,052 Junies since 1880, against 1,314 Junitas. Junie is still ahead, with 152 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Junie Junita
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 128 years in which either name was published, Junie for 76 years and Junita for 52 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1880–1924 Junie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1925–1943 Junita ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1946–1948 Junie ahead
- 1949–1951 Junita ahead
- 1954–1960 Junie ahead
- 1961–1992 Junita ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1996–2025 Junie ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Junie | Junita | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,052 | 1,314 |
| Most in one year | 152 | 41 |
| Babies in 2025 | 152 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,200 | 610 |
| Median age today | 7 | 62 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1926 |
| Best rank | 1,484th girls | 1,198th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,484th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1912 |
| Girls / boys | 1,884 / 168 | 1,314 / 0 |
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 Junitas alive today are over 62; half the Junies are over 7. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Junie North Carolina (4.7×), Florida (3.5×), Texas (2.5×)
- Junita Mississippi (24.5×), Arkansas (20.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Junie and Junita.