Junïor
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Junïor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 58th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
- USUnited States1 in 155K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 163K
- NONorway1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
2,146 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Junior in US United States, CM Cameroon, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Junïor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,146 | 1 in 155K | 26K | Junior | 131 |
| ES Spain | — | 36 | 1 in 1.4M | 639 | Junior | 29 |
| DK Denmark | — | 36 | 1 in 163K | 62 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 24 | 1 in 1.9M | 275 | — | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | #58 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Junior | 37 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 1 in 391K | 104 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 10 |
2,146 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Junïor mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Junïor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Junïor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled junior.
- Where is Junïor most common?
- Junïor is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Junïor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,146 people named Junïor in 2010, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
- How common is Junïor compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Junïor is the 58th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jun%C3%AForThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Junïor” — the 58th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.