Johnnetta
Johnnetta was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 399 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnnetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnnetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,764, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1979, the peak
Johnnetta peaked in 1979, when 18 girls were given it, #4,110 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #14,764 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,128 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,751 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,402 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,484 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,233 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,912 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,143 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,263 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,735 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 11 | #6,506 | 6.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,209 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,488 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,589 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,711 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,697 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,035 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,110 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,701 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,335 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,227 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,698 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,839 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,051 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,198 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,255 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,876 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,981 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,879 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,760 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,825 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,107 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,332 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,986 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,367 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,941 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,266 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,324 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,116 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,293 | 4.5 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,890 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,072 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,947 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,195 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnnetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnnetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johnnetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnnetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Johnnetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 41 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 317 people named Johnnetta (316 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 375 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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).
How common is the spelling Johnnetta?
Johnnetta is a less common spelling of Johnetta: SSA has recorded 399 Johnnetta and 3,201 Johnetta since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,914 babies since 1880, Johnnetta is the fourth most given (5.8% 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 Johnnetta
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 Johnnetta and names like it
- Compare Johnnetta and JohnettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJohnnetta peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Johnnetta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Johnnetta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.