June
June is ranked 152nd among girls in 2024 (1,956 births). Its best rank was 39th, in 1925.
- Rank in 2024
- #152up 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,9560.12% of girls
- Peak year
- 19256,649 births
- Best rank
- #39in 1925
- Since 1880
- 207,125people given the name
The story in the numbers
203,564 girls have been named June in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 6,649 births — 0.55% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 318 → 152).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,561 boys have also been given it, 1.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named June | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 315 | |
| 1890s | 788 | |
| 1900s | 1,556 | |
| 1910s | 19,244 | |
| 1920s | 56,483 | |
| 1930s | 40,743 | |
| 1940s | 25,167 | |
| 1950s | 21,101 | |
| 1960s | 11,232 | |
| 1970s | 3,518 | |
| 1980s | 1,744 | |
| 1990s | 967 | |
| 2000s | 1,835 | |
| 2010s | 10,252 | |
| 2020s | 8,619 |
In 1925, its biggest year
June was the 39th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with June
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorispeak 1928
- Lavernepeak 1924
- Dorthypeak 1927
- Mavispeak 1927
- Dorotheypeak 1925
- Ardispeak 1928
- Lorrainepeak 1928
- Dortheypeak 1932
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.