Jr — #3985 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jr

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,705 babies named Jr between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jr currently holds the #3985 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 43 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jr performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Jr shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 170 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Jr in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jr 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 1,705 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.