Jurgen vs Jurnee
American parents have registered 4,569 Jurnees since 1880, against 450 Jurgens. Jurnee is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jurgen 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
Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Jurnee for 32 years and Jurgen for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Jurgen | Jurnee | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 450 | 4,569 |
| Most in one year | 24 | 305 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | 125 |
| Estimated living today | 420 | 4,500 |
| Median age today | 22 | 10 |
| Peak year | 2015 | 2018 |
| Best rank | 4,179th boys | 887th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 9,714th | 1,652nd |
| First recorded | 1932 | 1994 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 450 | 4,557 / 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 Jurgens alive today are over 22; half the Jurnees are over 10. That is 12 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: Jurgen and Jurnee.