Johnell
Johnell was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,886 among boys’ names; 1,594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Johnell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 31 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnell?
#12,886 among boys’ names, 2025
Johnell fell from #11,348 in 2015 to #12,886 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.1 to 2.9 per million.
37 babies in 1977, the peak
Johnell peaked in 1977, when 37 babies were given it (25 boys, #1,970 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,886 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,099 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,384 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,465 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,418 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 8 | #9,245 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #11,348 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #12,981 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,157 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 9 | #8,477 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | under 5 | 14 | #6,085 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 11 | #7,302 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 18 | #5,194 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 16 | #5,614 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 13 | #6,428 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 12 | #6,661 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 11 | #6,854 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,978 | 13 | #5,959 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 9 | #7,523 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 18 | #4,392 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 16 | #4,771 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 16 | #4,677 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 22 | #3,521 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,201 | 12 | #5,289 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 17 | #3,955 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 20 | #3,465 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 13 | #4,644 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 20 | #3,388 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,985 | 16 | #3,912 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 22 | #3,055 | |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,910 | 25 | #2,708 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 27 | #2,518 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,439 | 20 | #3,025 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,639 | 14 | #3,603 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,204 | 17 | #3,006 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,376 | 15 | #3,197 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,389 | 23 | #2,325 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,031 | 24 | #2,197 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,403 | 20 | #2,451 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,710 | 16 | #2,905 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,035 | 16 | #2,828 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,697 | 13 | #3,343 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,953 | 23 | #2,195 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,992 | 25 | #1,994 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,334 | 25 | #1,970 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,263 | 19 | #2,373 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,705 | 13 | #2,989 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,957 | 14 | #2,733 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,311 | 22 | #1,954 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,242 | 13 | #2,742 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,656 | 16 | #2,412 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 15 | #2,444 | |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,220 | 17 | #2,083 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 13 | #2,387 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,229 | 14 | #2,200 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 17 | #1,924 | |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,329 | 8 | #3,108 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,474 | 13 | #2,356 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 15 | #2,157 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,055 | 16 | #2,076 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,147 | 8 | #3,224 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,774 | 18 | #1,943 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 18 | #1,938 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,488 | 8 | #3,154 |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,735 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,368 | 18 | #1,910 |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,866 | |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,413 | 23 | #1,611 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,058 | 19 | #1,793 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,176 | 18 | #1,827 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,598 | 19 | #1,753 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,987 | 16 | #1,914 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,943 | 16 | #1,906 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,920 | 14 | #2,066 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,536 | 14 | #2,115 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,683 | 12 | #2,205 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,819 | 11 | #2,189 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,525 | 15 | #1,850 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,988 | 6 | #3,384 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 11 | #2,325 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 9 | #2,564 | |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,350 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,731 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 9 | #2,560 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,784 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 9 | #2,529 | |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,531 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,934 | |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,094 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,057 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,370 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Johnell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,594 Americans recorded as Johnell, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Johnell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnell, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,594 Americans ever recorded as Johnell. The median Johnell alive today is 45 years old; half are between 31 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 1,054 people named Johnell (306 women and girls, 748 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 261 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 344 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 234 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 65 |
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 Johnell born?
The states with the most babies named Johnell are Louisiana, Illinois and California, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 130 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Johnell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johnell is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1925 it was given 4.1 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 Johnell 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,705 babies since 1880, Johnell is the most given (59% of them).
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 Johnell
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 Johnell and names like it
- Compare Johnell and JonelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJohnell peaked in 1977.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnell since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Johnell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Johnell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.