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Journei

Gender
Girl
Say it
JUR-nee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#1,443 for girls

Journei is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “journey”. In 2025 it ranked 1,443rd for girls in the US (149 babies).

What does Journei mean?

English: respelling of the word journey

“journey”

The English word journey comes from Old French journée, originally meaning a day's travel.

Is Journei a girl's or a boy's name?

Journei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 149 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Journei in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,443rd among girls
Babies in 2025
149 about 1 in 11,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 8% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 149 girls in the US were named Journei, making it the 1,443rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,362nd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 194 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

Half of all the girls named Journei in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 455 girls in the US were given Journei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #639, up from #1,443 for this spelling alone.

1999Busiest: 194 in 20212025
Journei in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025149#1,443
2024147#1,484
2023174#1,304
2022177#1,325
2021194#1,219
2020160#1,362
2019177#1,295
2018175#1,299
2017141#1,552
2016119#1,743
2015111#1,850
2014111#1,830
201388#2,137
201276#2,426
201160#2,867
201053#3,122
200944#3,618
200830#4,880
200733#4,474
200619#6,590
200516#7,133
200412#8,711
20039#10,420
200210#9,476
20019#10,095
20000–
19997#11,378

Names like Journei

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Journei

Names related to Journei

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Journei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/journei, updated 20 October 2026.