Given name & surname
Sojourner
Sojourner is a unisex given name from English.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sojourner through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 184
- 0 boys · 184 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,948 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −72%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,948 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 245 as a first name in 2020; 386 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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