girls:
2k births since 1999
#3819 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1999
#5771 (25th percentile)
The name Journei is the #5,771 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,003 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 25.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,819 (33.2% percentile) for all time with 2,003 births since 1999.
Journei first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (first recorded for girls in 1999). Birth data for Journei is available in 24 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Journei reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 20.2% percentile (ranked #747) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 108 births per million (ranked 20.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Journei ranks #778 for girls (17.9% percentile) with 99 births per million, which is 91.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Journei".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Journey. View all variations of Journey.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Journei", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 26 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Journey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Journey..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Journei. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.5% confident that Journei is pronounced as JER-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JER-nay, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Journei? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Journei. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Journei, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH ER1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker