Journey

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Journey".

1981 2023 19812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
19,112
Peak Births
1,393
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1981
Peak Percentile
76.9%
Current Percentile
66.8%
Peak Rank
#223
Current Rank
#315
Female statistics
Total Births
1,838
Peak Births
124
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
1983
Peak Percentile
13.2%
Current Percentile
10.5%
Peak Rank
#686
Current Rank
#815
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Journey

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Journey. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Journey is pronounced as JER-nee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Journey. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Journey, please vote using the thumbs up button.

jer-NEE (2 syllables)
9 names 21.2k births
JH ER0 N IY1
JER-nay (2 syllables)
8 names 17.9k births
JH ER1 N EY0

About Pronunciation Data

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.