In 2025, 1,978 US girls were named June, making it the 150th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2 places from #152 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 1,963 girls named June in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #39, reached in 1925. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,649. For comparison, it was #281 in 2015 and #137 in 1950.
Social Security card records list June in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 23 babies with the name. In all, 209,183 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 57,245 babies named June.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,963 US girls were named June; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,978. In 2025 that was about 1 in 813 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, June ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #38 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 10 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Juniper (22,117 babies since 1880), Junie (2,052 babies since 1880), Junia (1,330 babies since 1880) and Juan (368,366 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Juna and Juni are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Junius.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Basque and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.