# Junaid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/junaid/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 557 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 557 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,616, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 10,174 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,240 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,809 |
| 2014 | 18 | 5,155 |
| 2015 | 9 | 8,358 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,184 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,928 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,525 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,705 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,129 |
| 2021 | 21 | 4,700 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,779 |
| 2023 | 20 | 4,975 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,138 |
| 2025 | 23 | 4,462 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 812 |
| 2012 | 45 | 734 |
| 2013 | 45 | 720 |
| 2014 | 33 | 889 |
| 2015 | 30 | 977 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 27 | 1,068 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,132 |
| 2019 | 22 | 1,189 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 22 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,322 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,276 |

## People named Junaid

- Junaid Babunagari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1953-2021)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.