girls:
19.1k births since 1981
#1061 (81st percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1983
#2914 (36th percentile)
overall:
20.9k births since 1981
#1764 (77th percentile)
The name Journey is the #1,764 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,950 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 77.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,061 (81.4% percentile) for all time with 19,112 births since 1981. For boys, it ranks #2,914 (36.4% percentile) for all time with 1,838 births since 1983.
Journey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Journey is available in 42 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (41 years for girls and 36 years for boys). 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.
The name Journey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 90.1% of babies named Journey were girls.
For girls, Journey reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 76.9% percentile (ranked #223) with 749 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 749 births per million (ranked 76.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Journey ranks #315 for girls (66.8% percentile) with 528 births per million, which is 70.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Journey reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 13.2% percentile (ranked #782) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 67 births per million (ranked 13.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Journey ranks #815 for boys (10.5% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 82.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Journey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Journey is pronounced as JER-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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