Journey

Where Journey comes from

From journey at the end of the 20th century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Journey
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1981
    First appearance
    #8,128 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2018
    Peak, #226
    1,397 babies named Journey — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes

No widely known Journey turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.