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June
Pronounced /d͡ʒun/
Rank in 2024
#152
Born in 2024
1,956
Peak year
1925 · #39
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:63 in 2024 (#2,267)
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,956 girls were named June, about 1 in every 825.
- It peaked in 1925 with 6,649 babies, ranked #39.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 203,564 girls have been named June since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named June per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.3Greatest1901–27
- 3.2Silent1928–45
- 1.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 66,546 babies, 3.25 per 1,000. Silent: 66,442 babies, 3.22 per 1,000. Boomers: 38,492 babies, 1.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,671 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,209 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,948 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 17,027 babies, 0.84 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier Middle English Juyn, juyng, from Old French juing, juin, from Latin iūnius, the month of the goddess Iuno (“Juno”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu (“vital force, youthful vigor”). ==== Alternative forms ==== Jun, Jun., JUN (abbreviation) ==== Proper noun ==== June (plural Junes) The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.
- A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], often for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
- A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /d͡ʒun/
From Wiktionary’s entry for June, CC BY-SA 4.0.