Juniper
Juniper was given to 2,618 girls in 2025, #100 among girls’ names; 22,117 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,000 Americans named Juniper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Juniper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Juniper mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Juniper is “a female given name from English.”
Also “a male given name from English.”
A topographic surname from juniper. In some cases matronymic from an equivalent of Jennifer influenced by folk etymology.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Juniper?
#100 among girls’ names, 2025
Juniper rose from #427 in 2015 to #100 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.42 to 1.6 per 1,000.
2,646 babies in 2025, the peak
Juniper peaked in 2025, when 2,646 babies were given it (2,618 girls, #100 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 2,451 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,618 | #100 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 2,451 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 2,393 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,502 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 2,004 | #137 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,676 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,547 | #192 | 0.92 |
| 2018 | 1,185 | #281 | 0.70 |
| 2017 | 1,049 | #311 | 0.61 |
| 2016 | 957 | #349 | 0.54 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 745 | #427 | 0.42 |
| 2014 | 644 | #488 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 442 | #637 | 0.25 |
| 2012 | 305 | #875 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 269 | #954 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 213 | #1,147 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,388 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,953 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,378 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,495 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,185 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,215 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,253 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,024 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,173 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,056 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,004 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,190 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,629 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,454 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,986 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,646 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,133 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,040 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,963 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,618 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,813 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,035 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,234 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,042 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,320 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,210 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,660 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,965 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Juniper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,117 Americans recorded as Juniper, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 2,618 girls and 28 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Juniper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Juniper, and how old are they?
22,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,117 Americans ever recorded as Juniper. The median Juniper alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 8,200 people named Juniper (8,081 women and girls, 119 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,664 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 132 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 52 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,400 |
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 Juniper born?
The states with the most babies named Juniper are California, Texas and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 251 | #119 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 170 | #196 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 112 | #159 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 111 | #86 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 109 | #43 | 2.2× |
| Colorado | 103 | #31 | 2.0× |
| Indiana | 100 | #48 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 97 | #70 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | #113 | 0.8× |
| Oregon | 84 | #14 | 3.4× |
Where Juniper is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Juniper is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1969 it was given 3.4 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 Juniper 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 Juniper
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 Juniper and names like it
- Compare Juniper and IndieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJuniper peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Juniper since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Juniper: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Juniper.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Juniper alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.