Johna
Johna was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,462 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Johna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 37 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johna is “a female given name.”
From John + -a.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,360, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
98 babies in 1963, the peak
Johna peaked in 1963, when 98 girls were given it, #1,100 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,360 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,262 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,743 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,828 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,407 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,069 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,923 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,201 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,940 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,456 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 17 | #6,972 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,337 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,725 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,602 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,607 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,017 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,133 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,706 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,060 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,458 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,917 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,000 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,573 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,360 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,889 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,101 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,280 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,817 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,170 | 28.8 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,534 | 22.7 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,036 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,354 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,612 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,389 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,508 | 22.8 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,456 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,988 | 32.4 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,366 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,529 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,919 | 32.1 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,717 | 37.7 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,190 | 25.2 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,741 | 35.0 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,867 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,699 | 32.5 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,728 | 30.3 |
| 1969 | 60 | #1,535 | 35.6 |
| 1968 | 58 | #1,496 | 35.4 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,571 | 31.5 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,356 | 38.4 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,582 | 28.3 |
| 1964 | 86 | #1,193 | 45.4 |
| 1963 | 98 | #1,100 | 50.8 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,580 | 25.9 |
| 1961 | 81 | #1,225 | 40.1 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,028 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,074 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,802 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,241 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,567 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,368 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,263 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,097 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,093 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,820 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,485 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,784 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,885 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,973 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,989 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,669 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,848 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,490 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,594 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,120 | 7.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,559 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,629 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,043 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,244 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,530 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,624 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,609 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,149 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,498 | 7.1 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,439 | 5.2 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,034 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Johna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johna has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Johna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johna, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 2,462 Americans ever recorded as Johna. The median Johna alive today is 51 years old; half are between 37 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 2,361 people named Johna (2,163 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 522 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 731 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 535 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 309 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25 |
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 Johna born?
The states with the most babies named Johna are California, Texas and Ohio, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 103 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 32 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Johna 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 228,922 babies since 1880, Johna is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,602 babies recorded by SSA was a Johna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Johna
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 Johna and names like it
- Compare Johna and JoannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJohna peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johna since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Johna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Johna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.