Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
Origin: EnglishJuniper is a given name used either in reference to the English common name for the juniper tree or berry, or in reference to a derivation of the Welsh name Guinevere. Juniper has historically been used as both a boys' name and a girls' name.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Juniper yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Juniper has the smallest cumulative total of any name across these four batches: 19,452 births in its entire recorded history, which begins in 1969. It has grown 279% over the decade and set its best rank of 111 in 2024, on 2,441 births. No namesakes are recorded at all. That combination — high current volume, negligible history, nobody attached — puts it in the same category as Everly and Juniper's fellow botanicals, where the name is chosen purely for sound and connotation. Plant names have moved as a block alongside Sage, Willow and Ivy. The specific risk is that blocks like this tend to date together, so a Juniper born now will read as precisely 2020s in the way an Autumn reads as 1990s.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | #7,967 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,633 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,662 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,211 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,323 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,042 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,236 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,037 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,814 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,618 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,964 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,041 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,136 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,650 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,888 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,261 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,078 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,991 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,459 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,634 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,195 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,010 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,061 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,178 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,028 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,257 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,218 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,189 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,494 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,378 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,953 |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,392 |
| 2010 | 213 | #1,147 |
| 2011 | 269 | #954 |
| 2012 | 305 | #875 |
| 2013 | 441 | #638 |
| 2014 | 644 | #488 |
| 2015 | 745 | #427 |
| 2016 | 957 | #349 |
| 2017 | 1,049 | #310 |
| 2018 | 1,185 | #281 |
| 2019 | 1,546 | #193 |
| 2020 | 1,675 | #171 |
| 2021 | 2,004 | #137 |
| 2022 | 2,499 | #113 |
| 2023 | 2,391 | #113 |
| 2024 | 2,441 | #111 |
