Johny
Johny is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 727th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192970 births
- Best rank
- #727in 1905
- Since 1888
- 3,565people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,565 boys have been named Johny in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 70 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Johny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 260 | |
| 1920s | 511 | |
| 1930s | 428 | |
| 1940s | 351 | |
| 1950s | 233 | |
| 1960s | 230 | |
| 1970s | 173 | |
| 1980s | 232 | |
| 1990s | 348 | |
| 2000s | 373 | |
| 2010s | 269 | |
| 2020s | 68 |
In 1929, its biggest year
Johny was the 768th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1929 were Robert, James, John, William and Charles. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Johny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Farrispeak 1923
- Raymonpeak 1926
- Leeroypeak 1927
- Coypeak 1926
- Rulonpeak 1927
- Altonpeak 1937
- Franklynpeak 1933
- Claibornepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
- Johnny320,983 ever
- Johnnie151,182 ever
- Johnie26,059 ever
- Jonny3,498 ever
- Jhonny1,830 ever
- Johney1,519 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.