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Junious vs Juno

American parents have registered 2,207 Junos since 1880, against 1,714 Juniouses. Juno is still ahead, with 233 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Junious 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 128 years in which either name was published, Junious for 101 years and Juno for 27 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Junious Juno
Total US births 1,7142,207
Most in one year 53233
Babies in 2025 under 5233
Estimated living today 4302,200
Median age today 655
Peak year 19162025
Best rank 864th boys1,250th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,250th
First recorded 18801919
Girls / boys 0 / 1,7141,770 / 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 Juniouses alive today are over 65; half the Junos are over 5. That is 60 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: Junious and Juno.