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Jurem vs Jurnee

American parents have registered 4,569 Jurnees since 1880, against 27 Jurems. Jurnee is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jurem against Jurnee, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jurem Jurnee

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

Jurnee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jurem had 22 and Jurnee had 205.

Side by side

  Jurem Jurnee
Total US births 274,569
Most in one year 22305
Babies in 2025 under 5125
Estimated living today 304,500
Median age today 1710
Peak year 20082018
Best rank 4,395th boys887th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,652nd
First recorded 20081994
Girls / boys 0 / 274,557 / 12

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 Jurems alive today are over 17; half the Jurnees are over 10. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

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