Junie is a pet form of June, the month name that honors Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods, so it is usually glossed as "born in June" or "Juno's month". Barbara Park's Junie B. Jones books have made the name familiar to American schoolchildren since the 1990s. Junie has soared from number 9207 in 2015 to number 1488 in 2025, its best rank ever, riding the vintage-nickname trend.