Johnell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Johnell

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,234 babies named Johnell between 1934 and 2020, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Johnell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Johnell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 355 additional births since 1925.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Johnell performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 194 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Johnell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 130 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Johnell in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Johnell 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 1,234 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.