Journey
#411 for girls in 2025, 757 births · #1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
Given to girls 91.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 1,397 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,882since 1981
Journey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #411 | 757 | #1,942 | 79 |
| 2024 | #320 | 961 | #1,833 | 88 |
| 2023 | #331 | 933 | #1,662 | 103 |
| 2022 | #312 | 1,025 | #1,678 | 102 |
| 2021 | #264 | 1,178 | #1,454 | 124 |
| 2020 | #292 | 1,095 | #1,390 | 125 |
| 2019 | #245 | 1,298 | #1,407 | 125 |
| 2018 | #226 | 1,397 | #1,565 | 107 |
| 2017 | #276 | 1,167 | #1,488 | 113 |
| 2016 | #262 | 1,219 | #1,599 | 102 |
| 2015 | #274 | 1,157 | #2,068 | 68 |
| 2014 | #288 | 1,126 | #1,907 | 76 |
| 2013 | #335 | 960 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #327 | 958 | #1,787 | 83 |
| 2011 | #369 | 867 | #2,173 | 60 |
| 2010 | #419 | 754 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #498 | 613 | #2,663 | 46 |
| 2008 | #589 | 527 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #690 | 422 | #2,765 | 43 |
| 2006 | #821 | 331 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #772 | 343 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | #930 | 259 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #898 | 265 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #936 | 239 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #940 | 235 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #1,188 | 168 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #953 | 217 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #1,557 | 106 | #3,296 | 23 |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #5,484 | 6 |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Journey! It came in at #8,128, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Journey
- 91 spots since 2024 (#320 → #411)
- 119 spots since 2020 (#292 → #411)
- 137 spots since 2015 (#274 → #411)
- Biggest jump: 604 spots in 1999 (#1,557 → #953)
- Biggest drop: 235 spots in 2000 (#953 → #1,188)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2018 at #226 (1,397 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,218 girls born in 2018 were named Journey (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,123 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 52.2% of all girls named Journey (10,903) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1985, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 62 | #5,757 (1986) | #7,680 |
| 1990s | 566 | #953 (1999) | #4,121 |
| 2000s | 3,402 | #498 (2009) | #826 |
| 2010s | 10,903 | #226 (2018) | #302 |
| 2020s | 5,949 | #264 (2021) | #322 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Journey in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 1,586 of them was named Journey, which outranked 98.5% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #283Makenna1,149
- #286Elsa1,140
- #287Nova1,136
- #288Journey1,126
- #288Nadia1,126
- #290Kaydence1,123
- #291Jada1,120
- #292Alison1,118
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 25,275 of them was named Journey, which outranked 86.5% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,884Yechiel77
- #1,884Yohan77
- #1,884Yonatan77
- #1,907Journey76
- #1,907Adnan76
- #1,907Brad76
- #1,907Daylin76
- #1,920Amani75
- #1,920Atharv75
- #1,920Braelyn75
Tied with 12 names at #1,907; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.