# Junior (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/junior/  
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 | Jun, Junjun, Jhun, Jhunjhun |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 43,182 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 42,987 / 195 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,987, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From junior. The town in West Virginia was established on November 13, 1897, and named after Henry G. Davis Jr. (1871–1896), a son of United States Senator from West Virginia Henry G. Davis (1823–1916) who had been drowned at sea off the Atlantic Coast of South Africa while returning home on the steamship Munkesenton.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 13 | 2,743 |
| 1925 | 13 | 2,695 |
| 1926 | 14 | 2,525 |
| 1927 | 19 | 2,068 |
| 1928 | 17 | 2,142 |
| 1929 | 14 | 2,378 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,859 |
| 1931 | 12 | 2,494 |
| 1932 | 15 | 2,182 |
| 1934 | 7 | 3,632 |
| 1935 | 5 | 4,545 |
| 1936 | 8 | 3,250 |
| 1938 | 7 | 3,668 |
| 1940 | 6 | 4,095 |
| 1995 | 5 | 14,439 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 285 | 784 |
| 2012 | 272 | 815 |
| 2013 | 296 | 764 |
| 2014 | 278 | 818 |
| 2015 | 275 | 823 |
| 2016 | 284 | 811 |
| 2017 | 253 | 862 |
| 2018 | 286 | 792 |
| 2019 | 275 | 821 |
| 2020 | 324 | 750 |
| 2021 | 347 | 738 |
| 2022 | 327 | 773 |
| 2023 | 357 | 737 |
| 2024 | 398 | 683 |
| 2025 | 343 | 752 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 195 | 246 |
| 2012 | 200 | 244 |
| 2013 | 199 | 253 |
| 2014 | 188 | 263 |
| 2015 | 171 | 283 |
| 2016 | 156 | 310 |
| 2017 | 137 | 347 |
| 2018 | 136 | 337 |
| 2019 | 123 | 359 |
| 2020 | 105 | 395 |
| 2021 | 112 | 390 |
| 2022 | 105 | 404 |
| 2023 | 94 | 417 |
| 2024 | 78 | 500 |
| 2025 | 77 | 497 |

## People named Junior

- Junior Firpo, Dominican Republic association football player (born 1996)
- Júnior Díaz, Costa Rican footballer
- Júnior Baiano, Brazilian footballer
- Junior Messias, Brazilian footballer (born 1991)
- Júnior Moraes, Brazilian-Ukrainian footballer (born 1987)
- Júnior Fernándes, Chilean association football player
- Júnior Maranhão, Brazilian association football player
- Junior Kabananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer
- Junior Stanislas, English association football player (born 1989)
- Júnior Caiçara, Brazilian association football player
- Júnior Fell, Brazilian association football player
- Junior dos Santos, Brazilian mixed martial artist

## 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.