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Junaid

#4,461 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Junayd

Junaid has been given to 557 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,461 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Junaid, 2025

1 in 144,000

Junaid over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Junaid: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Junayd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Junaid means

Junaid is a alternate transcription of Junayd.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Junaid → Junayd. The family’s meaning is “small army”, recorded in the naming reference for Junayd.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Junayd.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 557 boys were recorded with the name Junaid between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,523 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,125 in 2020 to #4,461 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,353 in 2015 to #4,461 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 Junaid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,461
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Junaid 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Junaid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Junaids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Junaid was born before 2007 — so the typical Junaid is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
557
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2000s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Junaid 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
−326
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,664
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,892
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.5%
Peak was 2024 (26)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,523
1999

Spellings of Junaid

Junaid is not the most common spelling — Quaid is, with 62.1% against Junaid's 37.9%.

  • Quaid62.1%914
  • Junaid37.9%557

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 Junaid is used

Across 1910–2025, Junaid was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 904,604 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Junaid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Junaid around the world

Where Junaid 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
    1996–2025
    #1,276
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–1996
    #425
    in 1996
  • France
    2007–2025
    #2,542
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Junaid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,461
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,664
Best rank ever
#3,523
1999
Peak year
2024
26 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
557
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Junaid

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

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Sibling names for Junaid

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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