Juno
Juno is given to both girls and boys: 179 girls and 54 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,252 among girls’ names and #2,500 among boys’, #2,011 among all names counting both); 2,207 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,190 Americans named Juno and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Juno by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Juno mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Juno is “a female given name.”
From Middle English Juno, from Latin Iūnō of uncertain origin. One hypothesis is derivation from Proto-Indo-European *dyúh₃onh₂- (“she of heavenly authority”), from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”) + *-Hō (“burden, authority”), reflecting her role as goddess of rulers. Another is derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yúh₃onh₂- (“the young goddess”), from *h₂eyu- (“long time, lifetime”) + *-Hō (“burden, authority”), making it cognate with Latin iuvenis (“young”). Both would have produced the unattested early Latin form *Iuvō, declined with the root Iūn- and eventually normalized to Iūnō.
/ˈd͡ʒunoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Juno?
#1,252 among girls’ names, 2025
Juno rose from #2,203 in 2015 to #1,252 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
233 babies in 2025, the peak
Juno peaked in 2025, when 233 babies were given it (179 girls, #1,252 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 163 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179 | #1,252 | 54 | #2,500 |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,387 | 43 | #2,933 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,334 | 48 | #2,715 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,580 | 36 | #3,304 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,658 | 25 | #4,162 |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,812 | 28 | #3,761 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,915 | 20 | #4,882 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,843 | 19 | #5,008 |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,122 | 9 | #8,484 |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,989 | 6 | #11,399 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #2,203 | 16 | #5,620 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,296 | 15 | #5,860 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,059 | 14 | #6,065 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,059 | 10 | #7,827 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,850 | 6 | #11,529 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,440 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,913 | 8 | #9,411 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,585 | 12 | #6,960 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,443 | 17 | #5,313 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,274 | 8 | #9,126 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,670 | 11 | #6,863 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 13 | #5,969 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,689 | 9 | #7,323 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,186 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,439 | 5 | #10,734 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,183 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,007 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,523 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,516 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Juno a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,207 Americans recorded as Juno, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Juno: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Juno, and how old are they?
2,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,207 Americans ever recorded as Juno. The median Juno alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,515 people named Juno (1,058 women and girls, 457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,800 |
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 Juno born?
The states with the most babies named Juno are California, Texas and New York, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #1,166 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,575 | 0.4× |
| New York | 14 | #1,056 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 12 | #855 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 8 | #669 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,607 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,168 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,208 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #983 | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #943 | 0.1× |
Where Juno is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Juno is most over-represented in California: since 1919 it was given 1.2 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 Juno 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 235,183 babies since 1880, Juno is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 233 of their 2,851 babies (8.2%), the second 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 Juno
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 Juno and names like it
- Compare Juno and JuneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJuno peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Juno since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Juno.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Juno alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.