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Junius

#7,404 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Junius has been given to 5,373 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,404 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Junius, 2025

1 in 301,000

Junius over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Junius: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Junius means

Junius is a given name.

The naming story behind Junius

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Junius in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 151.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Lat. of Juno”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Junius, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,373 boys were recorded with the name Junius between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 151 in 1920; its best national rank was #336 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,044 in 2020 to #7,404 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,354 in 2015 to #7,404 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 Junius?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,404
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Junius 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Junius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juniuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Junius was born before 1928 — so the typical Junius is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,384
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Choose a decade

1920s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (1,278).

Is Junius 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
+5,802
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,640
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+950
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1920 (151)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#336
1891

Spellings of Junius

Junius is not the most common spelling — Julius is, with 53.3% against Junius's 3.4%.

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 Junius is used

Across 1910–2025, Junius was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,030 boys, against 1 in 29,137 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

033 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,030
  2. 2Virginia1 in 4,545
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 8,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 14,286
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Junius has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Junius

People whose public names include Junius, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Junius in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Junius. Linked forms have their own page here.

JunioGiunio

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Junius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,404
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,640
Best rank ever
#336
1891
Peak year
1920
151 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,373
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Junius

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

LuciusJuneMariusJuniorJunaidJariusDarriusCassiusAloysiusCaiusLadariusKaiusIgnatiusJunielOctaviusJuniousSiriusAdariusKassiusDariusJunAriusDemariusJuniper

Names with a curve like Junius

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

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Sibling names for Junius

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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