Junior

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Junior: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Junior: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #189, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
56times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#189highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#704
1997	#914
1998	#669
1999	#655
2000	#817
2001	#668
2002	#710
2003	#833
2004	#590
2005	#461
2006	#436
2007	#400
2008	#312
2009	#333
2010	#230
2011	#246
2012	#244
2013	#253
2014	#263
2015	#283
2016	#310
2017	#347
2018	#337
2019	#359
2020	#395
2021	#390
2022	#404
2023	#417
2024	#500

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #189 among boys in Scotland, #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, #500 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #704 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Junior appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,910 births with the name.

Junior across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Junior's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#704 (1996)	#230 (2010)	#500 (2024)	29 of 29	2,910 (1996–2024)	209 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#451 (2002)	#451 (2002)	#829 (2025)	8 of 24	35 (2002–2025)	7 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#265 (2005)	#200 (2009)	#305 (2024)	18 of 20	111 (2005–2024)	11 (2009)

Junior by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Junior in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	89	4 of 10	22
2000s	613	10 of 10	61
2010sbusiest	1,714	10 of 10	171
2020s	494	5 of 10	99

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 171 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births rose by 90, from 119 to 209.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Junior appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #189 in Scotland in 2024.

Junior's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#417	94	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#404	105	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#390	112	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#395	105	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#359	123	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#337	136	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#347	137	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#310	156	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#283	171	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#263	188	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#253	199	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#244	200	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#246	195	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#230	209	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#333	119	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#312	129	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#400	90	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#436	75	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#461	61	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#590	41	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#833	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#710	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#668	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#655	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#669	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#704	22	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#326	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#304	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#319	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#250	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#232	8	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#237	8	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#213	10	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#244	7	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#247	7	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#218	9	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#303	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#200	11	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#265	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#584	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#454	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#189	23	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #189, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 209 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

June · #83, 81y
Juni · #162, 34y
Juniper · #285, 19y
Juno · #275, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lacie · #189, 30y
Emilija · #188, 29y
Emilio · #188, 35y
Keenan · #188, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Lacie · #189, 30y
Brogan · #188, 30y
Corrie · #190, 15y
Dylon · #188, 21y

Junior was ranked #189 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Junior and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Junior without appearing here.

Junior moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #833 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #590 and #1347.
Murray Compare
In 2003 they stood at #833 and #642 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #590 and #1038.
Roger Compare
In 1997 they stood at #914 and #694 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #669 and #1000.
Courtney Compare
In 1998 they stood at #669 and #554 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #655 and #973.

Moved ahead of Junior

Teddy Compare
In 1996 they stood at #704 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #914 and #578.
Oskar Compare
In 1996 they stood at #704 and #976 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #914 and #759.
Filip Compare
In 2006 they stood at #436 and #443 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #400 and #253.
Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #213 and #264 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2015 that had become #237 and #126.

Moved the opposite way to Junior

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Junior went from #704 to #417 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Junior went from #704 to #417 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Junior went from #704 to #417 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Junior went from #704 to #404 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.

Moved the same way as Junior

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Junior went from #914 to #500 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.
Barry Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Junior went from #265 to #414 and Barry from #185 to #414.
Gary Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Junior went from #265 to #414 and Gary from #124 to #352.
Noel Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in Northern Ireland · Boys, Junior went from #265 to #414 and Noel from #247 to #414.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #189 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Junior

Junior at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Junior across 3 official records

Junior by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Junior appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Junior and the names beside it

Junior moved ahead of

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Junior at a glance

Junior across 3 official records

Junior by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Junior appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Junior

Junior and the names beside it

Junior moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Junior

Moved the opposite way to Junior

Moved the same way as Junior