Juniper is the name of the evergreen shrub with blue berries, from the Latin juniperus, and as a first name it means simply "juniper tree". Its spicy berries flavor gin, and in folklore the tree was a symbol of protection. Juniper stood at number 5061 in 2000, entered the top 1000 in 2011 and rose to number 100 in 2025, its first year in the US top 100.