June

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Jana in IN India, ES Spain and Juene in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

June is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name172K records spelled June21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, France

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Juné, Jüñë, Jüñe, Jünë, Juñe

• a separate given name62K records spelled June2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Jun'E

• Swahili given name23K records spelled June5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Kenya, United Kingdom

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

  Also written Juné

• Korean given name13K records spelled June10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Canada, Malaysia

  Also written 준의, Junyi, Jhune, 주네, Jun-Yi

• Polish given name10K records spelled June13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

  Also written Jüńę

• Thai given name4.9K records spelled June31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written กุลชญา, Kanchaya, Kulchaya, Kunchaya, กัลชิญา

• Hungarian given name4.8K records spelled June4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Finland, Philippines

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Juné

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

June is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Translation of French Juln, name of the month of June, probably applied as a nickname for someone bom or baptized in that month or for a foundling discovered in June. This name is very frequent in LA. BEEHiHESA Juin from La Rochelle is recorded in Saint-Jean, Quebec, in 1666.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, from French jeune ‘young’, a distinguishing name for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name. Compare Young.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice. Abbreviation: Jun or Jun.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, June är en engelsk form av månadsnamnet juni (June) (jfr → Juni).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In English, month; pers. name

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• June Allysonb. 1917USAmerican actress (1917–2006)
• June Forayb. 1917USAmerican voice actress (1917–2017)
• June Duprezb. 1918GBactress (1918-1984)
• June Lockhartb. 1925USAmerican actress (1925–2025)
• June Carterb. 1929USAmerican singer (1929–2003)
• June Squibbb. 1929USAmerican actress
• June Almeidab. 1930GBBritish virologist
• June Huhb. 1983USKorean-American mathematician
• Kim Joonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
• Lee Joonb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, dancer, actor and model

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,079 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name June?

We estimate roughly 685 thousand people bear June (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does June have the most bearers?

We estimate about 530 thousand people bear June in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.

Where is June most common?

June is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 people carrying it.

How common is June compared with other names?

In Singapore, June is the 96th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.

Is June a male or female name?

June is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name June mean?

Recorded meaning: English month name, from Latin Iunius after the goddess Juno.