Johanan
Johanan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,283 among boys’ names; 246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johanan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johanan?
#11,283 among boys’ names, 2025
Johanan rose from #11,345 in 2015 to #11,283 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
14 babies in 2006, the peak
Johanan peaked in 2006, when 14 boys were given it, #5,926 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,283 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,289 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,098 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,404 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,862 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,470 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,507 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,345 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,372 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,806 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | #6,084 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,196 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,625 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,239 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,326 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,926 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,716 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,400 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,749 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,768 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,677 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,645 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,826 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,541 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,905 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,512 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,231 | 3.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,939 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,985 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johanan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johanan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johanan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johanan, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Johanan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 314 people named Johanan (29 women and girls, 285 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 224 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johanan
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.