Johnsie
Johnsie was last recorded in 1970, when 6 babies were given it; 1,254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnsie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnsie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,450, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1918, the peak
Johnsie peaked in 1918, when 42 girls were given it, #1,158 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | #7,450 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,017 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,334 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,047 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,368 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,596 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,913 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,815 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,511 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,047 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 16 | #2,892 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,827 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,005 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,454 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,860 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,386 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,670 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,457 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,391 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,671 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,825 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,502 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,812 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,646 | 19.2 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,312 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,423 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,527 | 22.8 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,618 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,399 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,769 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,398 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,333 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,275 | 31.7 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,334 | 29.0 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,271 | 31.0 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,632 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,433 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,615 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,133 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,561 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,238 | 32.9 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,420 | 27.2 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,336 | 29.0 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,297 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,558 | 23.5 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,236 | 32.5 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,337 | 30.1 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,158 | 36.3 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,956 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,261 | 31.6 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,212 | 33.5 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,363 | 28.9 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,714 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,233 | 34.0 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,089 | 40.6 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,470 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,083 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,613 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,722 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,266 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,806 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,563 | 25.4 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,700 | 22.7 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,501 | 26.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johnsie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Johnsie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnsie, and how old are they?
An estimated 301 Americans named Johnsie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 461 people named Johnsie (428 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Johnsie born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 850 | not ranked | 20.4× |
| South Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Johnsie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Johnsie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 20.4 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 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 Johnsie 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,375 babies since 1880, Johnsie is the most given (91% 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 Johnsie
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 Johnsie and names like it
- Compare Johnsie and JohnasiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sJohnsie peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnsie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Johnsie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Johnsie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.