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Junior

Rank in 2024
#683
Born in 2024
397
Peak year
1926 · #117
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 397 boys were named Junior, about 1 in every 4,321.
  • It peaked in 1926 with 1,590 babies, ranked #117.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1882.
  • 42,630 boys have been named Junior since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Junior per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.7
    Greatest
  2. 0.6
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 11,937 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Silent: 13,391 babies, 0.65 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,631 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,698 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,366 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,818 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,692 babies, 0.17 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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.

  • A male given name, from a nickname for someone with the title Jr. (junior).
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Junior, CC BY-SA 4.0.