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Junior vs Junius

American parents have registered 43,182 Juniors since 1880, against 5,373 Juniuses. Junior is still ahead, with 343 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Junior against Junius, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Junior Junius

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 146 years in which either name was published, Junior for 112 years and Junius for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Junior Junius
Total US births 43,1825,373
Most in one year 1,607151
Babies in 2025 34311
Estimated living today 18,0001,500
Median age today 2960
Peak year 19261920
Best rank 117th boys490th boys
Rank in 2025 752nd7,194th
First recorded 18821880
Girls / boys 195 / 42,9870 / 5,373

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 Juniuses alive today are over 60; half the Juniors are over 29. That is 31 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.

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