Johnnie
Johnnie is given to both girls and boys: 42 girls and 61 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,608 among girls’ names and #2,295 among boys’, #3,476 among all names counting both); 151,295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 57,300 Americans named Johnnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 53 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johnnie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johnnie is “a diminutive of the male given name John.”
From John + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johnnie?
#2,295 among boys’ names, 2025
Johnnie fell from #1,518 in 2015 to #2,295 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.9 to 35.7 per million.
2,996 babies in 1928, the peak
Johnnie peaked in 1928, when 2,996 babies were given it (1,868 boys, #103 among boys’ names). The 103 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,608 | 61 | #2,295 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,856 | 61 | #2,328 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,230 | 66 | #2,181 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,918 | 75 | #2,029 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,573 | 86 | #1,820 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,111 | 74 | #1,955 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,278 | 72 | #2,030 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,278 | 100 | #1,632 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,585 | 95 | #1,668 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,957 | 95 | #1,668 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,536 | 109 | #1,518 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,051 | 118 | #1,425 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,949 | 115 | #1,440 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,783 | 107 | #1,507 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,857 | 133 | #1,290 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,761 | 105 | #1,541 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,784 | 119 | #1,417 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,638 | 140 | #1,245 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,941 | 152 | #1,165 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,989 | 133 | #1,259 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,522 | 151 | #1,097 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,832 | 139 | #1,136 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,675 | 144 | #1,078 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,337 | 148 | #1,037 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,681 | 160 | #963 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,112 | 162 | #939 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,463 | 181 | #834 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,628 | 164 | #887 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,598 | 197 | #755 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,525 | 202 | #746 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,465 | 260 | #643 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,636 | 215 | #712 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,131 | 264 | #635 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,467 | 269 | #629 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,049 | 293 | #593 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,352 | 328 | #556 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,378 | 347 | #514 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,225 | 292 | #534 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,405 | 336 | #482 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,155 | 331 | #478 |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,003 | 329 | #477 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,946 | 327 | #467 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,720 | 366 | #428 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,883 | 456 | #379 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,508 | 472 | #370 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,476 | 446 | #383 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,526 | 455 | #376 |
| 1978 | 88 | #1,352 | 467 | #356 |
| 1977 | 110 | #1,150 | 515 | #349 |
| 1976 | 87 | #1,275 | 527 | #329 |
| 1975 | 108 | #1,086 | 524 | #332 |
| 1974 | 130 | #955 | 564 | #320 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,017 | 629 | #288 |
| 1972 | 144 | #884 | 691 | #278 |
| 1971 | 186 | #783 | 783 | #270 |
| 1970 | 184 | #774 | 765 | #275 |
| 1969 | 192 | #729 | 776 | #266 |
| 1968 | 207 | #674 | 738 | #269 |
| 1967 | 205 | #674 | 743 | #267 |
| 1966 | 213 | #663 | 851 | #246 |
| 1965 | 238 | #636 | 891 | #248 |
| 1964 | 259 | #636 | 927 | #252 |
| 1963 | 283 | #591 | 1,013 | #238 |
| 1962 | 323 | #544 | 1,024 | #242 |
| 1961 | 339 | #533 | 1,054 | #243 |
| 1960 | 405 | #487 | 1,132 | #241 |
| 1959 | 433 | #463 | 1,177 | #232 |
| 1958 | 411 | #469 | 1,271 | #210 |
| 1957 | 512 | #409 | 1,296 | #207 |
| 1956 | 571 | #366 | 1,317 | #204 |
| 1955 | 596 | #355 | 1,403 | #190 |
| 1954 | 604 | #349 | 1,444 | #183 |
| 1953 | 720 | #308 | 1,404 | #180 |
| 1952 | 680 | #309 | 1,520 | #173 |
| 1951 | 823 | #273 | 1,627 | #162 |
| 1950 | 835 | #265 | 1,587 | #157 |
| 1949 | 919 | #250 | 1,729 | #150 |
| 1948 | 888 | #251 | 1,778 | #150 |
| 1947 | 995 | #236 | 1,801 | #148 |
| 1946 | 923 | #236 | 1,721 | #141 |
| 1945 | 935 | #209 | 1,600 | #133 |
| 1944 | 1,092 | #192 | 1,620 | #131 |
| 1943 | 1,081 | #196 | 1,655 | #135 |
| 1942 | 1,069 | #192 | 1,558 | #138 |
| 1941 | 987 | #192 | 1,515 | #131 |
| 1940 | 861 | #206 | 1,445 | #129 |
| 1939 | 837 | #208 | 1,459 | #120 |
| 1938 | 851 | #204 | 1,453 | #123 |
| 1937 | 880 | #198 | 1,477 | #118 |
| 1936 | 937 | #193 | 1,490 | #117 |
| 1935 | 904 | #193 | 1,511 | #118 |
| 1934 | 932 | #190 | 1,504 | #116 |
| 1933 | 879 | #195 | 1,461 | #115 |
| 1932 | 964 | #190 | 1,600 | #113 |
| 1931 | 967 | #187 | 1,595 | #110 |
| 1930 | 912 | #206 | 1,783 | #104 |
| 1929 | 989 | #195 | 1,765 | #103 |
| 1928 | 1,128 | #182 | 1,868 | #103 |
| 1927 | 1,066 | #191 | 1,795 | #105 |
| 1926 | 1,073 | #191 | 1,731 | #104 |
| 1925 | 1,127 | #189 | 1,744 | #100 |
| 1924 | 1,072 | #196 | 1,741 | #101 |
| 1923 | 946 | #207 | 1,653 | #107 |
| 1922 | 902 | #216 | 1,647 | #105 |
| 1921 | 909 | #211 | 1,624 | #108 |
| 1920 | 854 | #223 | 1,727 | #99 |
| 1919 | 832 | #215 | 1,716 | #95 |
| 1918 | 890 | #210 | 1,521 | #110 |
| 1917 | 695 | #236 | 1,403 | #111 |
| 1916 | 676 | #236 | 1,306 | #115 |
| 1915 | 545 | #254 | 1,168 | #117 |
| 1914 | 494 | #240 | 929 | #119 |
| 1913 | 440 | #229 | 717 | #118 |
| 1912 | 365 | #236 | 709 | #106 |
| 1911 | 256 | #246 | 455 | #90 |
| 1910 | 299 | #215 | 502 | #74 |
| 1909 | 275 | #208 | 401 | #77 |
| 1908 | 188 | #254 | 321 | #85 |
| 1907 | 226 | #221 | 307 | #86 |
| 1906 | 199 | #221 | 255 | #91 |
| 1905 | 181 | #237 | 297 | #81 |
| 1904 | 175 | #232 | 267 | #84 |
| 1903 | 141 | #260 | 237 | #87 |
| 1902 | 154 | #249 | 221 | #91 |
| 1901 | 110 | #284 | 162 | #104 |
| 1900 | 164 | #253 | 313 | #84 |
| 1899 | 94 | #307 | 151 | #113 |
| 1898 | 86 | #337 | 153 | #121 |
| 1897 | 91 | #304 | 125 | #130 |
| 1896 | 89 | #308 | 116 | #144 |
| 1895 | 103 | #277 | 120 | #134 |
| 1894 | 80 | #311 | 124 | #131 |
| 1893 | 68 | #325 | 95 | #156 |
| 1892 | 66 | #328 | 107 | #150 |
| 1891 | 58 | #333 | 79 | #163 |
| 1890 | 44 | #379 | 90 | #158 |
| 1889 | 40 | #381 | 71 | #188 |
| 1888 | 57 | #318 | 82 | #183 |
| 1887 | 32 | #384 | 59 | #200 |
| 1886 | 48 | #301 | 67 | #199 |
| 1885 | 31 | #368 | 71 | #184 |
| 1884 | 33 | #344 | 46 | #255 |
| 1883 | 22 | #402 | 48 | #226 |
| 1882 | 24 | #366 | 59 | #214 |
| 1881 | 27 | #304 | 45 | #225 |
| 1880 | 9 | #607 | 24 | #353 |
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 Johnnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 151,295 Americans recorded as Johnnie, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Johnnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnnie, and how old are they?
57,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 38% of the 151,295 Americans ever recorded as Johnnie. The median Johnnie alive today is 68 years old; half are between 53 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 47,521 people named Johnnie (15,830 women and girls, 31,691 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 68,918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 | 10,500 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,580 |
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 Johnnie born?
The states with the most babies named Johnnie are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17,541 | #2,755 | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 14,591 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Alabama | 13,344 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Mississippi | 13,080 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| North Carolina | 9,634 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 7,990 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Florida | 7,286 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Tennessee | 6,448 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Louisiana | 6,212 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Arkansas | 5,539 | not ranked | 2.5× |
Where Johnnie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johnnie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.9 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 Johnnie 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 500,434 babies since 1880, Johnnie is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 103 of their 808 babies (13%), again the second most given.
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 Johnnie
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 Johnnie and names like it
- Compare Johnnie and JohnnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJohnnie peaked in 1928.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Johnnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Johnnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.