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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Junior

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#752

down −69 places

2025 births

343

down −55 births

All-time births

42,987

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1926
1,590 births
Best rank
#115
in 1925
First recorded
1882
#674 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1953
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
136 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19261,590#117Peak
  2. 19271,588#119
  3. 19251,545#115
  4. 19241,495#121
  5. 19281,493#120

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #115 in 1925 · peak births 1,590 in 1926

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

42,987 boys · 195 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Junior has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.