Johnesha
Johnesha was last recorded in 2005, when 7 babies were given it; 279 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,647, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1996, the peak
Johnesha peaked in 1996, when 34 girls were given it, #3,381 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | #13,647 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,979 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,920 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,812 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,941 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,248 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,437 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,644 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,036 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,381 | 19.4 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | #6,814 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,827 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,303 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,840 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,067 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,938 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,934 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,641 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,002 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,876 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,107 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,869 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johnesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 273 Americans named Johnesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 28 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 224 people named Johnesha (224 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johnesha
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.