Journie
Journie was given to 131 girls in 2025, #1,600 among girls’ names; 2,723 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Journie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Journie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Journie?
#1,600 among girls’ names, 2025
Journie rose from #1,649 in 2015 to #1,600 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 72.8 to 81.5 per million.
181 babies in 2021, the peak
Journie peaked in 2021, when 181 girls were given it, #1,279 among girls’ names. The 131 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,600 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,431 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,295 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 160 | #1,417 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 181 | #1,279 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 159 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,382 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,382 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,575 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,649 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 114 | #1,801 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 113 | #1,810 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,961 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,810 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,266 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,539 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,784 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,819 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,820 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,546 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,126 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,065 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,680 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,370 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,623 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,788 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,513 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,643 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,976 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Journie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Journie has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Journie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Journie, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,723 Americans ever recorded as Journie. The median Journie alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,410 people named Journie (1,379 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 754 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
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 Journie born?
The states with the most babies named Journie are Texas, California and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,433 | 1.1× |
| California | 8 | #2,377 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,772 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,201 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #640 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,345 | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #724 | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,045 | 1.3× |
| New York | 6 | #1,934 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,501 | 0.4× |
Where Journie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Journie is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1996 it was given 1.3 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 Journie 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 Journie?
Journie is a less common spelling of Journey: SSA has recorded 2,723 Journie and 22,893 Journey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,455 babies since 1880, Journie is the fourth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 131 of their 2,750 babies (4.8%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Journie
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 Journie and names like it
- Compare Journie and JourneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJournie peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Journie since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Journie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Journie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.