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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 1,476 of them was named Journey, which outranked 98.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 13,809 of them was named Journey, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,386Demari126
- #1,386Giannis126
- #1,386Johnathon126
- #1,390Journey125
- #1,390Destin125
- #1,390Ean125
- #1,390Malek125
- #1,398Aamir124
- #1,398Chevy124
- #1,398Cortez124
Tied with 7 names at #1,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.