Juniper
Top 1000
About Juniper
Juniper is a fresh-feeling nature name -- it's a small evergreen shrub -- with lots of energy. A new favorite of fashionable parents, Juniper joins such other tree and shrub names as Hazel, Acacia, and Willow.
Juniper has an interesting variety of associations -- it's mentioned in the Old Testament, was used in Renaissance paintings to represent chastity, has berries used to flavor gin, and Juniper is the Saint of Comedy. A male St. Juniper was a follower of St. Francis of Assisi.
Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny author Margaret Wise Brown sometimes used the pen name of Juniper Sage. And in the Junie B. Jones kids' books, Junie's full name is Juniper Beatrice. There also have been Junipers is cartoon series (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee) and comic strips as well.
The name got something of a hippieish vibe via the 1969 hit Donovan song, 'Jennifer Juniper.'
Juniper entered the U.S. Top 1000 for the first time in 2011 and has risen to the Top 150.
As of October 2026, Juniper ranked #100 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #116.
Editor's take: The name Juniper is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "young".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #488 | 644 | 360.5 |
| 2015 | #427 | 745 | 417.3 |
| 2016 | #349 | 957 | 540.1 |
| 2017 | #310 | 1,049 | 607.6 |
| 2018 | #281 | 1,185 | 696.6 |
| 2019 | #193 | 1,546 | 921.1 |
| 2020 | #171 | 1,675 | 1,036.2 |
| 2021 | #137 | 2,004 | 1,221.3 |
| 2022 | #113 | 2,499 | 1,523.7 |
| 2023 | #113 | 2,391 | 1,490.1 |
| 2024 | #111 | 2,441 | 1,506.6 |
| 2025 | #100 | 2,618 | 1,628.9 |
World rankings
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Famous Junipers
- Juniper Sage
pen name of Margaret Wise Brown and Edith Thacher Hurd, American children's authors
Juniper in pop culture
- Juniper
character in 2012 movie "Mud"
- "The Life and Times Of Juniper Lee
" animated series and main character
- "Juniper
" novel by Monica Furlong and its main character
- Juniper Beatrice "Junie B." Jones
main character in the Junie B. Jones series
- Juniper
nymph in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.
- Juniper "Joon" Pearl
character from the movie "Benny and Joon"
- Juniper Cooper
character on TV series "Riverdale," twin of brother Dagwood Cooper
- Juniper Blythe
character in "The distant hours" by Kate Morton
- Juniper
Pachyrhinosaurus in the film "Walking with Dinosaurs 3D"
- Juniper Woods
character in video game 'Ace Attorney'
- Aurea Juniper
professor character in the Pokemon Black and White video games
- "Jennifer Juniper
" Song by Donovan
- Juniper Andromeda
character in Sarah J Maas's Crescent City
Variations & nicknames
- June
- Juna
- Junie
- Juno