Juniper is the English name for the evergreen coniferous shrub, ultimately from the Latin juniperus. The juniper has been used in medicine, cuisine (gin is flavoured with juniper berries), and religious ritual across many cultures.
Juniper as a girl's name is recent — it entered U.S. records in 2011 and has climbed rapidly into the top 175.
Juniper does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Juniper reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.