Johanny — #9107 US unisex name
389 babies named Johanny in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 48% of names given to girls today.
30% of everyone ever named Johanny was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Johanny in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Johanny
The Social Security Administration has registered 389 babies named Johanny between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Johanny currently holds the #9107 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Johanny is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 42 additional births since 1997.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Johanny performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Johanny shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 45 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Johanny in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Johanny 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 389 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.
Johanny at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Johanny popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1978
- Peak year (2023)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
Currently ranks #9107 among girls.
389 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 22 births in a single year.
Johanny popularity over time — boys
42 total births recorded since 1997 (Johanny as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Johanny accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Johanny by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 118 births that decade — 30% of Johanny's all-time total
Johanny decade highlights
- Peak decade 118 births
- Runner-up 87 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Johanny's strongest decade
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Johanny by state
Where Johanny concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 45 | 11.6% |
45 of 389 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 11.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 11.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.