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Joon

#5,115 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Alternate transcription of Jun

Joon has been given to 564 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,115 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.

Babies named Joon, 2025

1 in 174,000

Joon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Joon over time

In 2025, Joon went to 34% girls and 66% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Joon: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jun

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joon means

Joon is a alternate transcription of Jun.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Joon is a alternate transcription of Jun. Jun has more than one origin or interpretation.

The naming story behind Joon

Joon is an alternate transcription of the Korean written form 준, represented as Jun in the linked reference. A transcription describes how a name is written in another script; the relationship alone does not supply one universal literal meaning.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jun.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 491 boys were recorded with the name Joon between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,513 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,247 in 2020 to #5,115 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,285 in 2015 to #5,115 in 2025.

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Joon between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2025; its best national rank was #9,747 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,746 in 2020 to #9,747 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Joon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,115
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joon was born before 2005 — so the typical Joon is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
491
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2000s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Joon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−982
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,132
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,170
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.73×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.1%
Peak was 2024 (26)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,513
1971

Spellings of Joon

Joon is not the most common spelling — John is, with 57.0% against Joon's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Joon is used

Across 1910–2025, Joon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 758,541 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Kansas1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Joon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joon around the world

Where Joon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2020–2022
    #6,352
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Joon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,115
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,132
Best rank ever
#3,513
1971
Peak year
2024
26 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
491
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,747
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,999
Best rank ever
#9,747
2025
Peak year
2025
10 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Joon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Joon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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