Boy · Latin, through English
Junior
Say it: JOO-nyer
Meaning
From Latin junior 'younger', the suffix used for a son named after his father.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Registered as a given name in the US since at least the 1920s, often when 'Junior' was the boy's everyday name.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1920s
In the United States
- 41,378 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 1926, about 1 in 698 boys
- 321 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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