Journey Girl
How popular is Journey?
#411 girl name in 2025
757 baby girls were named Journey in the US in 2025, making it the 411th most popular girl name. Another 79 boys got the name (#1,942 for boys).
Journey popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #411 for girls (▼ 91 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 757 girls, 79 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-35% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #274 in 2015, #292 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (1,397 girls) |
| Highest rank | #226 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1981 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 9% boys, 91% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Journey counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Journee family of names ranked #137 for girls in 2025 (#113 the year before), with 2,439 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Journee | 1,198 | 49% |
| Journey | 757 | 31% |
| Journi | 345 | 14% |
| Journie | 131 | 5% |
| Journeigh | 8 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Journey is most popular
Babies named Journey per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 1.9 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- Delaware: 1.6 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Hawaii: 1.6 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Georgia: 1.4 per 1,000 (318 girls)
- Oklahoma: 1.3 per 1,000 (97 girls)
Journey by decade
Girl names about as popular as Journey
Questions
- Is Journey a boy or girl name?
- Journey is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 91% of babies named Journey were girls.
- How popular is the name Journey?
- 757 baby girls were named Journey in the US in 2025, making it the 411th most popular girl name. Another 79 boys got the name (#1,942 for boys).
- When was Journey most popular?
- Journey peaked in 2018, when 1,397 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #226 in 2018.
- How many people are named Journey?
- 22,893 babies have been named Journey in the US since 1880. We estimate about 22,757 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Journey most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Journey was most common in West Virginia, at 1.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.