Journey

What Journey means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Journey yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #411 vs #3,333 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Journey?

US: Falling: down from #274 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 1,397 girls got the name (#226 that year). First in the US records in 1981.

How common

• About 1 in 2,123 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 36,183 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.8 per 1,000 girls), AL (1.36 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.35 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Journey is #411 in the US and #3333 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 90.6% of US babies named Journey were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Journee1,198 US
• Journi345 US · 3 E&W
• Journei149 US
• Jurnee125 US
• Journii65 US
• Journiee17 US
• Journeii17 US
• Jurnei8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Journey

Girls

• Serenity#129Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #129 vs #997 in 2025
• Sky#948From the word “sky”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Promise#823Editor’s note 330 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Mercy#862Editor’s note Up from #1,011 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Journey’s. Rank is US 2025.