Journey — #322 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Journey

The Social Security Administration has registered 20,095 babies named Journey between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Journey currently holds the #322 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 1,396 babies received it in a single year. Journey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,929 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Journey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,894 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Journey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,918 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Journey in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Journey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 20,095 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.