Meaning not yet researched.
Journey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 757 in 2025. Its best rank was #226 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #226 in 2018; #411 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Journey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#411 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #226.
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Journey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 757 girls in 2025. Peak: #226 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 1,397 (2018).
In 2025, 757 US girls were named Journey, making it the 411th most common girls’ name of the year, down 91 places from #320 in 2024. That is 204 fewer than the 961 girls named Journey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #226, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,397. For comparison, it was #274 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Journey in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 7 babies. In all, 22,893 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 8.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,775 babies named Journey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,030 US girls were named Journey; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,397. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,123 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Journey ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #148 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Journee (18,334 babies since 1880), Journi (5,101 babies since 1880), Jurnee (4,569 babies since 1880) and Journie (2,723 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jurney, Journiee and Jurnei are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jurney (249), Journiee (197), Jurnei (149), Journeii (139), Journye (36), Journni (24), Journy (19).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Journey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #148 | #258 |
| Alabama | 25 | #180 | #181 |
| Georgia | 47 | #227 | #145 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #227 | #136 |
| Maryland | 19 | #278 | #218 |
| Virginia | 30 | #278 | #321 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #282 | #280 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #284 | #142 |
| North Carolina | 38 | #293 | #166 |
| Indiana | 23 | #310 | #207 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #320 | #271 |
| Ohio | 34 | #327 | #226 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #339 | #130 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #346 | — |
| Michigan | 23 | #379 | #262 |
| Illinois | 27 | #393 | #286 |
| Nevada | 7 | #397 | #585 |
| Tennessee | 20 | #400 | #141 |
| Florida | 46 | #409 | #228 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #409 | #417 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #422 | #345 |
| Texas | 78 | #432 | #293 |
| Idaho | 5 | #440 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #451 | #174 |
| Missouri | 13 | #459 | #165 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #465 | #337 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #483 | #442 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #507 | #375 |
| Utah | 8 | #509 | #354 |
| Washington | 13 | #527 | #572 |
| Kansas | 6 | #540 | #314 |
| California | 58 | #560 | #534 |
| Iowa | 5 | #618 | #312 |
| New York | 27 | #618 | #479 |
| Arizona | 10 | #653 | #682 |
| Colorado | 7 | #744 | #728 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 757 | #411 | 79 | #1,951 |
| 2024 | 961 | #320 | 88 | #1,842 |
| 2023 | 933 | #332 | 103 | #1,664 |
| 2022 | 1,025 | #312 | 102 | #1,685 |
| 2021 | 1,178 | #264 | 124 | #1,457 |
| 2020 | 1,095 | #292 | 125 | #1,392 |
| 2019 | 1,298 | #245 | 125 | #1,410 |
| 2018 | 1,397 | #226 | 107 | #1,569 |
| 2017 | 1,167 | #276 | 113 | #1,493 |
| 2016 | 1,219 | #262 | 102 | #1,600 |
| 2015 | 1,157 | #274 | 68 | #2,078 |
| 2014 | 1,126 | #288 | 76 | #1,914 |
| 2013 | 960 | #335 | 66 | #2,053 |
| 2012 | 958 | #327 | 83 | #1,793 |
| 2011 | 867 | #371 | 60 | #2,186 |
| 2010 | 754 | #419 | 72 | #1,947 |
| 2009 | 613 | #498 | 46 | #2,681 |
| 2008 | 527 | #591 | 63 | #2,151 |
| 2007 | 422 | #690 | 43 | #2,783 |
| 2006 | 331 | #821 | 21 | #4,432 |
| 2005 | 343 | #772 | 39 | #2,778 |
| 2004 | 259 | #930 | 29 | #3,327 |
| 2003 | 265 | #900 | 32 | #3,020 |
| 2002 | 239 | #936 | 28 | #3,225 |
| 2001 | 235 | #941 | 35 | #2,715 |
| 2000 | 168 | #1,192 | 27 | #3,182 |
| 1999 | 217 | #953 | 32 | #2,695 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,561 | 23 | #3,344 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,295 | 11 | #5,463 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,191 | 31 | #2,510 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,810 | 13 | #4,653 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,943 | 7 | #7,338 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,414 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,825 | 8 | #6,386 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,521 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,648 | 6 | #7,609 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,125 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,043 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,015 | 5 | #7,542 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,931 | — | — |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,443 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,553 | 6 | #5,961 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,984 | 6 | #5,864 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,493 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).