Johnetta
Johnetta was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 3,201 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,310 Americans named Johnetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 44 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johnetta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johnetta is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
From John; compare Henrietta.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johnetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,118, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
69 babies in 1952, the peak
Johnetta peaked in 1952, when 69 girls were given it, #1,140 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,118 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,436 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,913 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,482 | 5.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,573 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,322 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,336 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,645 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,234 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,635 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 15 | #6,186 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,406 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,051 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,301 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,811 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,174 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,746 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,680 | 22.8 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,716 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,404 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,935 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,264 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,241 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,169 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,506 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,352 | 25.2 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,714 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,096 | 29.9 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,067 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,981 | 32.0 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,272 | 25.3 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,835 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,273 | 23.8 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,532 | 41.8 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,841 | 30.2 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,812 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 66 | #1,509 | 37.8 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,988 | 23.7 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,742 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,587 | 30.9 |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,467 | 33.7 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,313 | 39.1 |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,388 | 34.8 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,036 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,615 | 24.9 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,444 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,461 | 28.2 |
| 1959 | 62 | #1,362 | 30.6 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,353 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,538 | 24.0 |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,322 | 30.9 |
| 1955 | 48 | #1,473 | 24.5 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,384 | 27.3 |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,282 | 30.8 |
| 1952 | 69 | #1,140 | 37.2 |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,207 | 33.3 |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,205 | 34.4 |
| 1949 | 57 | #1,203 | 33.3 |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,245 | 31.8 |
| 1947 | 54 | #1,230 | 30.5 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,327 | 27.4 |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,149 | 36.0 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,241 | 30.9 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,260 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 49 | #1,131 | 36.3 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,986 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,327 | 28.0 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,317 | 29.2 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,673 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,431 | 25.4 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,569 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,740 | 19.1 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,804 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,633 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,720 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,250 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,840 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,133 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,987 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,698 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,800 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,430 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,955 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,919 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,546 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,893 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,406 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,885 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,909 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,955 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,725 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,187 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,959 | 17.1 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,776 | 19.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,081 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,758 | 20.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,361 | 28.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johnetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnetta, and how old are they?
2,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 3,201 Americans ever recorded as Johnetta. The median Johnetta alive today is 58 years old; half are between 44 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 2,043 people named Johnetta (2,041 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,501 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 171 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 818 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 681 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 533 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 107 |
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 Johnetta born?
The states with the most babies named Johnetta are Texas, Illinois and Kentucky, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 132 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 93 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 71 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 58 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 22 | 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 Johnetta 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 8,829 babies since 1880, Johnetta is the most given (36% 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 Johnetta
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 Johnetta and names like it
- Compare Johnetta and JohnetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJohnetta peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnetta since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Johnetta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Johnetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Johnetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.