Johnta
Johnta was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 229 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,157, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1994, the peak
Johnta peaked in 1994, when 28 boys were given it, #2,648 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #13,157 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,171 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,385 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,763 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,531 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,982 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,697 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,661 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,713 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,686 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 28 | #2,648 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,086 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,701 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,833 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,414 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,033 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,760 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,650 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,806 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,695 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,299 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,880 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,401 | 3.7 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,335 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 229 Americans recorded as Johnta, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Johnta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnta, and how old are they?
An estimated 219 Americans named Johnta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 30 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 207 people named Johnta (23 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,790 babies since 1880, Johnta is the fifth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Johnta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Johnta
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 Johnta and names like it
- Compare Johnta and JonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJohnta peaked in 1994.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johnta since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Johnta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Johnta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.