Junior
Junior is ranked 682nd among boys in 2024 (397 births). Its best rank was 115th, in 1925.
- Rank in 2024
- #682up 54 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3970.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19261,590 births
- Best rank
- #115in 1925
- Since 1882
- 42,630people given the name
The story in the numbers
42,630 boys have been named Junior in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 1,590 births — 0.14% of all boys 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 818 → 682).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 134 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Junior | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | |
| 1890s | 59 | |
| 1900s | 162 | |
| 1910s | 1,800 | |
| 1920s | 12,925 | |
| 1930s | 8,004 | |
| 1940s | 3,804 | |
| 1950s | 2,375 | |
| 1960s | 1,535 | |
| 1970s | 947 | |
| 1980s | 1,211 | |
| 1990s | 1,908 | |
| 2000s | 3,338 | |
| 2010s | 2,789 | |
| 2020s | 1,750 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Junior was the 117th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Junior
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edselpeak 1927
- Normandpeak 1929
- Lavernpeak 1924
- Fernandpeak 1923
- Keepeak 1924
- Donalpeak 1930
- Remopeak 1932
- Clearencepeak 1927
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.