Junie

Where Junie comes from

From June + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Junie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #757
    12 babies named Junie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,277.
  4. 1896
    Junie Cobb born
    American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
  5. 1966
    Junie Lewis born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes
  • Junie Cobb · American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician, 1896–1970
  • Junie Lewis · American basketball player, born 1966
  • Junie Sng · swimmer, born 1964

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.