Johan — #536 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Johan

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,133 babies named Johan between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Johan currently holds the #536 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 659 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Johan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,362 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Johan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,670 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Johan in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Johan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 14,133 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.