US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE JOHNNY

Same rise and fall as Johnny, around the same years.

WHERE JOHNNY IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Johnny ranked highest in New Mexico (#395) and lowest in Illinois (#1,900). 16 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Johnny name popularity

Johnny has been given to 321,696 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1947, when 7,497 babies got the name, and its best rank was #90 in 1944.

In 2025, 690 babies were named Johnny (#917 in the country), 91% below the peak. That is down 41% from 2015.

Almost every Johnny is a boy.

An estimated 237K people named Johnny are alive in the US today, with a median age of 61.

It was a top-100 name in 5 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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