Johan
Johan was given to 516 boys in 2025, #572 among boys’ names; 14,788 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,300 Americans named Johan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johan is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
An archaic variant of Joan, from Old French Johan, from Latin Johanna. Cf. John.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johan?
#572 among boys’ names, 2025
Johan fell from #559 in 2015 to #572 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.27 to 0.30 per 1,000.
659 babies in 2016, the peak
Johan peaked in 2016, when 659 boys were given it, #463 among boys’ names. The 516 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 516 | #572 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 555 | #537 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 517 | #564 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 501 | #580 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 438 | #631 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 458 | #600 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 481 | #580 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 480 | #577 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 577 | #503 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 659 | #463 | 0.35 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 514 | #559 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 478 | #581 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 496 | #534 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 566 | #480 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 520 | #502 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 592 | #454 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 573 | #478 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 616 | #451 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 530 | #498 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 476 | #531 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 440 | #546 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 395 | #573 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 388 | #570 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 447 | #511 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 393 | #547 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 172 | #902 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 180 | #836 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 150 | #943 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,082 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,218 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,326 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 69 | #1,408 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,105 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 57 | #1,530 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,914 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 58 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 47 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 38 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,932 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,740 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,035 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,013 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,825 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,229 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,950 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,569 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,026 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,825 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,720 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johan has been given almost only to boys: 135 girls in 100 years of records.
Girls and boys named Johan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johan, and how old are they?
14,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 14,788 Americans ever recorded as Johan. The median Johan alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 15,883 people named Johan (435 women and girls, 15,448 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,544 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 85 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 261 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 825 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Johan born?
The states with the most babies named Johan are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 72 | #446 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 70 | #482 | 1.3× |
| New York | 44 | #395 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 39 | #471 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 28 | #384 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 25 | #340 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #453 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 21 | #507 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 14 | #373 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 13 | #573 | 0.8× |
Where Johan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johan is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Johan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,398,772 babies since 1880, Johan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 516 of their 9,015 babies (5.7%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Johan and names like it
- Compare Johan and JohnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJohan peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johan since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Johan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Johan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Johan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.