Johny
Johny was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,890 among boys’ names; 3,597 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Johny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Johny is “a diminutive of the male given name John.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johny?
#12,890 among boys’ names, 2025
Johny fell from #3,736 in 2015 to #12,890 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 2.9 per million.
78 babies in 1929, the peak
Johny peaked in 1929, when 78 babies were given it (70 boys, #768 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,890 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,637 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,060 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,297 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,874 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,127 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,948 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,005 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,166 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,251 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,736 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,182 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,229 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,747 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,395 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,982 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,513 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,309 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,841 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,000 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,730 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,765 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,696 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,721 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,069 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,109 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,758 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,048 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,640 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,782 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,316 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,324 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,265 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,936 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,067 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 54 | #1,546 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,213 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,551 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,990 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,325 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,641 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,482 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,880 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,765 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,065 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,504 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,509 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,425 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,604 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,655 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,825 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,734 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,171 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,593 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,413 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,765 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,704 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,990 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,489 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 28 | #1,467 | 15.7 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,694 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,713 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,720 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,569 | 12.6 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,182 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 28 | #1,539 | 13.1 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,741 | 10.3 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,568 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,531 | 12.5 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,743 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,820 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,530 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,613 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,475 | 13.9 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,229 | 19.1 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,587 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,171 | 20.9 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,183 | 21.1 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,220 | 19.7 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,248 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,093 | 26.7 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,145 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,095 | 27.3 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,324 | 20.3 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,118 | 28.5 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,081 | 31.9 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,096 | 31.6 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,120 | 30.7 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,026 | 36.6 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,037 | 36.6 |
| 1935 | 48 | #919 | 46.1 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,015 | 39.7 |
| 1933 | 47 | #915 | 47.4 |
| 1932 | 46 | #974 | 44.1 |
| 1931 | 51 | #905 | 49.1 |
| 1930 | 49 | #967 | 44.7 |
| 1929 | 70 | #768 | 65.1 |
| 1928 | 58 | #879 | 52.4 |
| 1927 | 57 | #904 | 50.6 |
| 1926 | 54 | #923 | 48.6 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,060 | 38.5 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,010 | 43.3 |
| 1923 | 52 | #958 | 47.4 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,127 | 36.8 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,113 | 37.2 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,011 | 44.2 |
| 1919 | 51 | #943 | 52.0 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,163 | 35.5 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,188 | 35.7 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,226 | 33.7 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,286 | 31.8 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,368 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,065 | 44.9 |
| 1912 | 26 | #886 | 60.5 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,336 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,506 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 14 | #786 | 85.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,298 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #903 | 68.1 |
| 1906 | 9 | #886 | 67.6 |
| 1905 | 12 | #727 | 90.7 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,021 | 54.6 |
| 1902 | 7 | #980 | 57.1 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,108 | 46.5 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,130 | 47.1 |
| 1890 | 6 | #945 | 54.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #983 | 49.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Johny has been given almost only to boys: 26 girls in 127 years of records.
Girls and boys named Johny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johny, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 55% of the 3,597 Americans ever recorded as Johny. The median Johny alive today is 35 years old; half are between 21 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 3,501 people named Johny (76 women and girls, 3,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,087 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 131 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 314 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 266 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 241 |
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 Johny born?
The states with the most babies named Johny are California, Texas and Mississippi, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 297 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 129 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 88 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 57 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 45 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 44 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Johny 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 359,810 babies since 1880, Johny is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 789 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Johny
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 Johny and names like it
- Compare Johny and JohnnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJohny peaked in 1929.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Johny since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Johny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Johny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.