Meaning not yet researched.
Juniper: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,618 in 2025. Its best rank was #100 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Juniper in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#100 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Juniper: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,618 girls in 2025. Peak: #100 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 2,618 (2025).
In 2025, 2,618 US girls were named Juniper, making it the 100th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #111 in 2024. That is 167 more than the 2,451 girls named Juniper in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #100, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,618. For comparison, it was #427 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Juniper in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 22,117 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 13,822 babies named Juniper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18,382 US girls were named Juniper; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,618. In 2025 that was about 1 in 614 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Juniper ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #13 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 23 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include June (209,183 babies since 1880) and Guinevere (4,592 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Junyper 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Junyper (5).
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 Juniper 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 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 20 | #13 | #91 |
| Oregon | 84 | #14 | #102 |
| Montana | 27 | #17 | #193 |
| Vermont | 12 | #23 | — |
| Colorado | 103 | #31 | #172 |
| Idaho | 38 | #32 | #203 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #35 | — |
| Utah | 79 | #37 | #211 |
| Washington | 109 | #43 | #233 |
| Indiana | 100 | #48 | #459 |
| Iowa | 42 | #58 | #242 |
| Arizona | 82 | #60 | #450 |
| Minnesota | 68 | #67 | #289 |
| Missouri | 73 | #68 | #405 |
| Maine | 14 | #68 | — |
| Kansas | 38 | #69 | — |
| Michigan | 97 | #70 | #366 |
| Wisconsin | 56 | #82 | #228 |
| Tennessee | 82 | #84 | #390 |
| Ohio | 111 | #86 | #418 |
| Connecticut | 29 | #95 | — |
| Oklahoma | 37 | #95 | #445 |
| Arkansas | 28 | #99 | — |
| Virginia | 70 | #102 | #485 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | #104 | #204 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #105 | #206 |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | #113 | #616 |
| Kentucky | 38 | #116 | #790 |
| California | 251 | #119 | #417 |
| Massachusetts | 45 | #119 | #406 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #125 | — |
| Nebraska | 18 | #125 | #469 |
| Nevada | 19 | #126 | #586 |
| New Mexico | 11 | #138 | — |
| Alabama | 29 | #150 | — |
| Georgia | 65 | #151 | #850 |
| South Carolina | 30 | #158 | — |
| Florida | 112 | #159 | #600 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #166 | — |
| North Carolina | 62 | #166 | #426 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #173 | — |
| Texas | 170 | #196 | #709 |
| Illinois | 49 | #206 | #548 |
| Maryland | 25 | #208 | #471 |
| New York | 81 | #213 | #465 |
| New Jersey | 34 | #243 | — |
| Mississippi | 11 | #257 | — |
| Louisiana | 17 | #262 | #831 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,618 | #100 | 28 | #3,894 |
| 2024 | 2,451 | #111 | 38 | #3,191 |
| 2023 | 2,393 | #113 | 31 | #3,669 |
| 2022 | 2,502 | #113 | 36 | #3,305 |
| 2021 | 2,004 | #137 | 24 | #4,304 |
| 2020 | 1,676 | #171 | 21 | #4,623 |
| 2019 | 1,547 | #192 | 22 | #4,551 |
| 2018 | 1,185 | #281 | 13 | #6,526 |
| 2017 | 1,049 | #311 | 7 | #10,208 |
| 2016 | 957 | #349 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 2015 | 745 | #427 | 13 | #6,507 |
| 2014 | 644 | #488 | 9 | #8,454 |
| 2013 | 442 | #637 | 8 | #9,207 |
| 2012 | 305 | #875 | 5 | #13,205 |
| 2011 | 269 | #954 | — | — |
| 2010 | 213 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,028 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,178 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,010 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,195 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,634 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,459 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,991 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,078 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,262 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,889 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,651 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,135 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,041 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,965 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,322 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,212 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,967 | — | — |
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).