Journi
Journi was given to 345 girls in 2025, #786 among girls’ names; 5,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,070 Americans named Journi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Journi dropped 165 places in 2025, the #25 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Journi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Journi?
#786 among girls’ names, 2025
Journi rose from #1,434 in 2015 to #786 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.21 per 1,000.
541 babies in 2021, the peak
Journi peaked in 2021, when 541 babies were given it (536 girls, #568 among girls’ names). The 345 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 345 | #786 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 481 | #621 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 509 | #589 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 472 | #626 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 536 | #568 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 398 | #705 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 372 | #754 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 306 | #883 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 223 | #1,127 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 197 | #1,238 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 161 | #1,434 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,680 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 151 | #1,495 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,751 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,176 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,473 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,759 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,164 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,107 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,881 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,321 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,156 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,687 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,456 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,622 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,315 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,184 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,465 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,474 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Journi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Journi has been given almost only to girls: 41 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Journi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Journi, and how old are they?
5,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,101 Americans ever recorded as Journi. The median Journi alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,843 people named Journi (1,815 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Journi born?
The states with the most babies named Journi are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 40 | #750 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 29 | #609 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 26 | #438 | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #460 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 18 | #244 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 17 | #586 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 16 | #319 | 1.5× |
| Maryland | 16 | #345 | 1.2× |
| California | 14 | #1,618 | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 13 | #208 | 3.2× |
Where Journi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Journi is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1993 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Journi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Journi?
Journi is a less common spelling of Journey: SSA has recorded 5,101 Journi and 22,893 Journey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,455 babies since 1880, Journi is the third most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 345 of their 2,750 babies (13%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Journi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Journi and names like it
- Compare Journi and JourneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJourni peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Journi since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Journi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Journi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.