Johannes
Johannes was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,499 among boys’ names; 2,314 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,050 Americans named Johannes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johannes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johannes mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johannes is “a male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of John and Jon.”
From Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).
/dʒəʊˈhænɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johannes?
#2,499 among boys’ names, 2025
Johannes fell from #2,397 in 2015 to #2,499 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 28.2 to 31.6 per million.
62 babies in 2019, the peak
Johannes peaked in 2019, when 62 boys were given it, #2,243 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,499 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,072 | 23.2 |
| 2023 | 52 | #2,558 | 30.4 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,772 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,267 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,306 | 34.2 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,243 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,525 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,433 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,422 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,397 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,730 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,575 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,027 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,079 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,658 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,501 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,188 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,780 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,185 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,773 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,040 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,162 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,138 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,290 | 22.6 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,362 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,975 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,025 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,037 | 23.3 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,159 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,115 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,528 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,976 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,059 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,361 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,729 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,379 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,268 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 37 | #1,770 | 19.8 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,323 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,463 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,324 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,450 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,792 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,968 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,931 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,508 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,728 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,283 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,012 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,493 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,732 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,170 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,741 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,055 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,567 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 22 | #1,786 | 12.3 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,759 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,835 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,702 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,036 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,072 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,255 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,832 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,832 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,768 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,248 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,153 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,400 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,727 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,091 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,089 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,612 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,151 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,158 | 4.0 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,159 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,387 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,003 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,730 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,810 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,864 | 8.1 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,562 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,152 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,279 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,028 | 8.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,567 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,741 | 9.7 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,632 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,435 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,529 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,572 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,622 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,493 | 11.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,226 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,087 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,173 | 15.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johannes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johannes has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johannes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johannes, and how old are they?
2,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,314 Americans ever recorded as Johannes. The median Johannes alive today is 23 years old; half are between 11 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 4,198 people named Johannes (32 women and girls, 4,166 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,820 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times 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 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 97 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 243 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 439 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 615 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 647 |
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 Johannes born?
The states with the most babies named Johannes are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,826 | 0.2× |
| California | 7 | #2,087 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,958 | 0.1× |
Where Johannes is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johannes is most over-represented in California: since 1913 it was given 1.1 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 Johannes 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,721 babies since 1880, Johannes is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 54 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Johannes
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 Johannes and names like it
- Compare Johannes and JohBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJohannes peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johannes since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Johannes.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Johannes alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.