Jr
Jr was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,314 among boys’ names; 1,729 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Jr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jr?
#4,314 among boys’ names, 2025
Jr fell from #3,738 in 2015 to #4,314 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 14.1 per million.
43 babies in 1989, the peak
Jr peaked in 1989, when 43 boys were given it, #1,773 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,314 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,023 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,339 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,114 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,865 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,070 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,171 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,934 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,098 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,640 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,738 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,840 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,368 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,837 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,285 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,758 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,970 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,782 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,214 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,270 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,047 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,983 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,960 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,843 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,361 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,945 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,224 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,770 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,957 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,245 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,245 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,892 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,119 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,702 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,865 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,818 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 43 | #1,773 | 21.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,644 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,008 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,060 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,298 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,484 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,701 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,303 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,295 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,886 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,810 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,426 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,379 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,204 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,882 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,927 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,879 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,196 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,255 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,398 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,164 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,235 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,685 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,114 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,888 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,747 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,951 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,464 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,277 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,928 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,352 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,284 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,092 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,610 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,942 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,357 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,402 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,399 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,813 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,111 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,658 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,451 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,544 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,741 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,627 | 19.1 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,646 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,675 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,338 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,820 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,348 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,091 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,699 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,098 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,557 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,391 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,780 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,991 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,063 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,229 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jr has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jr, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,729 Americans ever recorded as Jr. The median Jr alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 38.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 163 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 322 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 444 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 342 |
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.
Where are babies named Jr born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,329 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,067 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jr with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jr
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 Jr and names like it
- Compare Jr and JcBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJr peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jr since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jr.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jr alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.