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Journi

#786 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Journey

Journi has been given to 5,101 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #786 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 536 recorded.

Babies named Journi, 2025

1 in 9,610

Journi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Journi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Journey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Journi means

Journi is a variant of Journey.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Journi → Journey. The family’s meaning is “of the day”, recorded in the naming reference for Journey.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Journey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,060 girls were recorded with the name Journi between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 536 in 2021; its best national rank was #568 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #705 in 2020 to #786 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,434 in 2015 to #786 in 2025.

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Journi between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2020; its best national rank was #7,240 in 2020.

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 Journi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,610
345 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,660
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#786
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Journi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Journi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Journis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Journi was born before 2020 — so the typical Journi is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,060
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (2,741).

Is Journi 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
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−81
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+648
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.4%
Peak was 2021 (536)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#568
2021

Spellings of Journi

Journi is not the most common spelling — Joni is, with 34.1% against Journi's 6.0%.

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 Journi is used

Across 2016–2025, Journi was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 741 girls, against 1 in 3,700 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

2135 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 741
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,266
  3. 3Alabama1 in 1,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 1,471
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,639
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 1,887
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 2,041
  8. 8Maryland1 in 2,174

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Journi is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 92% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Journi around the world

Where Journi 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.

  • England & Wales
    2025–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Journi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#786
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 81
Best rank ever
#568
2021
Peak year
2021
536 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,060
Count in 2025
345

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,240
2020
Peak year
2020
11 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Journi

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

JournieJourneiJourneeJourneyMarniJourdynJourniiJourdanJouryJouriJoudJurniJourneJournieeJourneiiJourdinJerniJourneighJourdenJoulesJhourniJoudiaJournyJournye

Names with a curve like Journi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Journi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EzraJovieMarloweKataleyaDiorPersephoneAmaiaCalliopeHaloLegacyKeilaniAila

Sibling names for Journi

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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