Junior Boy Name

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The name Junior is of English origin, and is a nickname for a boy who has the same name as his father. The table below indicates the number of times the name Junior has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Junior**
Use of the Name Junior for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
36,147	8,131	4,571	2,522	1,459	618	310

The table below indicates the number of times the name Junior has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Junior first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1882, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Junior**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1882	674	9
1883
1884
1885	804	7
1886
1887
1888	872	7
1889
1890
1891
1892	663	11
1893	873	7
1894
1895
1896	703	11
1897	829	8
1898	943	7
1899	753	9
1900	666	15
1901	578	13
1902	603	14
1903	821	9
1904	708	12
1905	558	18
1906	555	18
1907	652	16
1908	481	27
1909	602	20
1910	458	36
1911	517	33
1912	535	56
1913	529	67
1914	502	96
1915	453	148
1916	393	200
1917	335	267
1918	270	391
1919	235	505
1920	193	703
1921	165	882
1922	149	1,026
1923	139	1,174
1924	121	1,494
1925	116	1,540
1926	117	1,589
1927	119	1,585
1928	121	1,481
1929	119	1,446
1930	135	1,317
1931	150	1,069
1932	145	1,115
1933	168	814
1934	172	810
1935	189	682
1936	194	633
1937	211	568
1938	236	510
1939	247	469
1940	271	430
1941	294	391
1942	295	420
1943	303	414
1944	304	389
1945	299	400
1946	345	350
1947	347	386
1948	375	325
1949	396	286
1950	413	267
1951	413	270
1952	436	258
1953	467	226
1954	447	260
1955	484	229
1956	500	228
1957	498	244
1958	544	201
1959	582	183
1960	556	202
1961	570	191
1962	584	178
1963	624	157
1964	601	174
1965	622	149
1966	642	134
1967	712	109
1968	735	104
1969	678	135
1970	799	103
1971	767	114
1972	877	84
1973	791	101
1974	874	85
1975	922	79
1976	828	102
1977	853	101
1978	957	82
1979	922	91
1980	801	120
1981	850	107
1982	765	131
1983	844	107
1984	877	101
1985	855	111
1986	849	114
1987	796	135
1988	796	142
1989	845	141
1990	831	152
1991	822	158
1992	780	179
1993	814	169
1994	786	182
1995	714	222
1996	733	209
1997	729	213
1998	751	213
1999	773	206
2000	676	263
2001	675	268
2002	631	310
2003	647	308
2004	649	310
Totals:		36,147		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Junior as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Junior appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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