June
June was given to 1,978 girls in 2025, #150 among girls’ names; 209,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 79,500 Americans named June and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 14 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of June by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does June mean?
Wiktionary, English section
June is “a female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.” Its etymology gives the senses “Juno” (Iuno) and “vital force, youthful vigor” (*h₂óyu).
Also “a male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.”
From Middle English June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier Middle English Juyn, juyng, from Old French juing, juin, from Latin iūnius, the month of the goddess Iuno (“Juno”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu (“vital force, youthful vigor”).
/d͡ʒun/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is June?
#150 among girls’ names, 2025
June rose from #281 in 2015 to #150 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.63 to 1.2 per 1,000.
6,723 babies in 1925, the peak
June peaked in 1925, when 6,723 babies were given it (6,649 girls, #39 among girls’ names). The 2,044 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,978 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 1,963 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,703 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,707 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,678 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,577 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,517 | #201 | 0.90 |
| 2018 | 1,351 | #242 | 0.79 |
| 2017 | 1,301 | #244 | 0.75 |
| 2016 | 1,188 | #268 | 0.67 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,133 | #281 | 0.63 |
| 2014 | 1,050 | #318 | 0.59 |
| 2013 | 869 | #364 | 0.50 |
| 2012 | 715 | #437 | 0.41 |
| 2011 | 631 | #468 | 0.36 |
| 2010 | 498 | #589 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 442 | #663 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 321 | #871 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 237 | #1,097 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 199 | #1,211 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,724 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,727 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,955 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,714 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,836 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,564 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,835 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,766 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,689 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,783 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,671 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 114 | #1,407 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 99 | #1,565 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,507 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,442 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,532 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,243 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,233 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 151 | #1,028 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 158 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 178 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 156 | #941 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 181 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 213 | #772 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 226 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 233 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 281 | #623 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 295 | #582 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 248 | #653 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 284 | #577 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 300 | #561 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 313 | #538 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 304 | #549 | 0.21 |
| 1972 | 403 | #461 | 0.26 |
| 1971 | 525 | #410 | 0.32 |
| 1970 | 565 | #406 | 0.32 |
| 1969 | 600 | #383 | 0.36 |
| 1968 | 591 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 1967 | 769 | #311 | 0.47 |
| 1966 | 910 | #280 | 0.54 |
| 1965 | 1,050 | #268 | 0.59 |
| 1964 | 1,372 | #236 | 0.72 |
| 1963 | 1,369 | #238 | 0.71 |
| 1962 | 1,454 | #222 | 0.74 |
| 1961 | 1,473 | #224 | 0.73 |
| 1960 | 1,645 | #208 | 0.81 |
| 1959 | 1,803 | #197 | 0.89 |
| 1958 | 1,829 | #190 | 0.91 |
| 1957 | 1,854 | #190 | 0.91 |
| 1956 | 1,954 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 1955 | 2,149 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 2,362 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 1953 | 2,264 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 2,317 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 1951 | 2,279 | #142 | 1.3 |
| 1950 | 2,290 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 1949 | 2,288 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 1948 | 2,389 | #127 | 1.4 |
| 1947 | 2,841 | #120 | 1.6 |
| 1946 | 2,562 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1945 | 2,071 | #121 | 1.6 |
| 1944 | 2,203 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 1943 | 2,491 | #111 | 1.8 |
| 1942 | 2,608 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1941 | 2,766 | #90 | 2.3 |
| 1940 | 2,949 | #82 | 2.6 |
| 1939 | 2,867 | #83 | 2.6 |
| 1938 | 3,141 | #79 | 2.8 |
| 1937 | 3,378 | #71 | 3.2 |
| 1936 | 3,515 | #62 | 3.4 |
| 1935 | 3,839 | #55 | 3.7 |
| 1934 | 4,387 | #46 | 4.2 |
| 1933 | 4,677 | #45 | 4.6 |
| 1932 | 4,845 | #44 | 4.5 |
| 1931 | 5,002 | #44 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5,094 | #47 | 4.5 |
| 1929 | 5,093 | #48 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 5,517 | #44 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 5,738 | #43 | 4.8 |
| 1926 | 6,077 | #40 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 6,649 | #39 | 5.5 |
| 1924 | 6,150 | #45 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 5,810 | #42 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 5,382 | #45 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 5,155 | #50 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 4,911 | #53 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 3,963 | #64 | 3.5 |
| 1918 | 4,034 | #66 | 3.5 |
| 1917 | 3,370 | #73 | 3.1 |
| 1916 | 2,840 | #86 | 2.7 |
| 1915 | 2,139 | #96 | 2.2 |
| 1914 | 1,148 | #132 | 1.5 |
| 1913 | 710 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1912 | 467 | #205 | 0.84 |
| 1911 | 278 | #236 | 0.66 |
| 1910 | 295 | #218 | 0.74 |
| 1909 | 213 | #242 | 0.61 |
| 1908 | 206 | #236 | 0.62 |
| 1907 | 193 | #243 | 0.61 |
| 1906 | 153 | #269 | 0.52 |
| 1905 | 148 | #272 | 0.51 |
| 1904 | 133 | #273 | 0.48 |
| 1903 | 143 | #258 | 0.55 |
| 1902 | 128 | #278 | 0.48 |
| 1901 | 113 | #279 | 0.47 |
| 1900 | 126 | #291 | 0.42 |
| 1899 | 95 | #303 | 0.41 |
| 1898 | 118 | #281 | 0.46 |
| 1897 | 91 | #305 | 0.39 |
| 1896 | 82 | #322 | 0.34 |
| 1895 | 77 | #326 | 0.33 |
| 1894 | 76 | #322 | 0.34 |
| 1893 | 62 | #342 | 0.29 |
| 1892 | 56 | #354 | 0.26 |
| 1891 | 68 | #304 | 0.37 |
| 1890 | 63 | #319 | 0.33 |
| 1889 | 54 | #339 | 0.30 |
| 1888 | 50 | #341 | 0.28 |
| 1887 | 25 | #454 | 0.17 |
| 1886 | 33 | #373 | 0.23 |
| 1885 | 34 | #345 | 0.26 |
| 1884 | 43 | #294 | 0.33 |
| 1883 | 24 | #381 | 0.21 |
| 1882 | 22 | #383 | 0.20 |
| 1881 | 16 | #423 | 0.17 |
| 1880 | 14 | #458 | 0.15 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is June a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 209,183 Americans recorded as June, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 1,978 girls and 66 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named June: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named June, and how old are they?
79,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 38% of the 209,183 Americans ever recorded as June. The median June alive today is 67 years old; half are between 14 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 92,671 people named June (90,874 women and girls, 1,797 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 87,786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16,400 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,400 |
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 June born?
The states with the most babies named June are New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 18,754 | #277 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 15,676 | #153 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 13,464 | #152 | 1.2× |
| California | 12,809 | #133 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 11,445 | #106 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 10,185 | #107 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 7,332 | #171 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 7,235 | #191 | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 7,121 | #111 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6,379 | #290 | 1.0× |
Where June is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, June is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 June with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 235,454 babies since 1880, June is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,044 of their 2,883 babies (71%), again the 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 June
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 June and names like it
- Compare June and JuanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJune peaked in 1925.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named June since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for June: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named June.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named June alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.