Journey
Journey is ranked 322nd among girls in 2024 (954 births). Its best rank was 226th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #322up 11 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9540.06% of girls
- Peak year
- 20181,396 births
- Best rank
- #226in 2018
- Since 1981
- 22,024people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,095 girls have been named Journey in the United States since 1981, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,396 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 288 → 322).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 54%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,929 boys have also been given it, 8.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Journey was the 226th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Journey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emariepeak 2018
- Brinleepeak 2017
- Yatziripeak 2023
- Rhyleepeak 2019
- Gracelynpeak 2018
- Iriepeak 2015
- Ximenapeak 2016
- Annaleahpeak 2015
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.