June
Meaning of June
June is a vintage charmer that traces back to the Latin Junius, the month named for Juno—the Roman guardian of love and marriage—which gives the name an evergreen aura of devotion and sunny optimism. In English–speaking families, it has long evoked picnic-weather, fireflies, and that irresistible “school’s-out” freedom; Rodgers and Hammerstein even had the chorus declare, “June is bustin’ out all over,” and country legend June Carter Cash wore it with gutsy grace. After peaking in the mid-20th century, June cooled off for a spell, but she’s steadily warming back up, climbing from outside the Top 800 in the early 2000s to a friendly No. 149 in 2024—a comeback as bright as the solstice itself. Short, sweet, and season-soaked, June feels both nostalgic and fresh, fitting a spirited toddler, a poised professional, and the legendary grandmother she may grow to be.
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- Pronunced as joon (/dʒuˈnu/)
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Notable People Named June
| June Havoc was a Canadian born American performer, stage director, and memoirist. |
| June Allyson was an American actress who worked on stage, in films, and on television. |
| June Millicent Jordan was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist who wrote about gender, race, immigration, and representation. |
| June Carter Cash was an American country singer, songwriter, and actress, a five-time Grammy winner and Carter Family member, the second wife of Johnny Cash, a skilled multi-instrumentalist, and a 2009 Christian Music Hall of Fame inductee. |
| Tarpe Mills, the pen name of American comics pioneer June Tarpe Mills, is best known for Miss Fury, the first female action hero created by a woman. |
| June and Jennifer Gibbons, Welsh twins known as the Silent Twins for speaking only to each other, wrote fiction but after 1981 crimes including arson were detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act at Broadmoor Hospital for eleven years. |
| June Kenney - June Claire Sebastian was an American actress best known for roles in late 1950s B movies. |
| June Christy was an American cool jazz singer with silky vocals who rose with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, launched her 1954 solo career with the debut album Something Cool, and is now hailed as a superb yet overlooked voice of her era. |
| June Antoinette Pointer was an American singer and the youngest founding member of the Pointer Sisters. |
| June Marlowe was an American silent film actress best known for playing Miss Crabtree in the Our Gang shorts. |
| June Macasaet is a Filipino model and actor who won Manhunt International 2012 in Bangkok, becoming the first Filipino and Southeast Asian winner and holding the pageant's longest reign. |
| Hyun Jun, known as June, is a Korean born R&B soloist with Sony Music Japan best known for two hit shonen anime soundtrack singles in the early 2000s. |
