Joni
Joni was given to 112 girls in 2025, #1,803 among girls’ names; 29,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,900 Americans named Joni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 46 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joni mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joni is “a female given name.”
Commonly used as a diminutive of Joan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joni?
#1,803 among girls’ names, 2025
Joni rose from #3,407 in 2015 to #1,803 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.3 to 69.7 per million.
1,584 babies in 1956, the peak
Joni peaked in 1956, when 1,584 babies were given it (1,576 girls, #204 among girls’ names). The 124 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,803 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,876 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,279 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,218 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,298 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,230 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,637 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,764 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,883 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,407 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,248 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,580 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,438 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,293 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,666 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,703 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,740 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,163 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,587 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,986 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,213 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,927 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,030 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,610 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,262 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,823 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,473 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,371 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,111 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,747 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,523 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,382 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 129 | #1,290 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 170 | #1,051 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 177 | #977 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 229 | #805 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 244 | #741 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 300 | #623 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 308 | #614 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 374 | #520 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 465 | #442 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 588 | #392 | 0.35 |
| 1981 | 724 | #327 | 0.43 |
| 1980 | 757 | #319 | 0.46 |
| 1979 | 660 | #352 | 0.41 |
| 1978 | 656 | #333 | 0.43 |
| 1977 | 580 | #370 | 0.38 |
| 1976 | 586 | #359 | 0.40 |
| 1975 | 380 | #486 | 0.26 |
| 1974 | 266 | #596 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 231 | #650 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 221 | #674 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 289 | #598 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 344 | #545 | 0.20 |
| 1969 | 337 | #536 | 0.20 |
| 1968 | 399 | #482 | 0.24 |
| 1967 | 446 | #447 | 0.27 |
| 1966 | 588 | #377 | 0.35 |
| 1965 | 717 | #339 | 0.41 |
| 1964 | 935 | #303 | 0.49 |
| 1963 | 1,089 | #273 | 0.56 |
| 1962 | 1,110 | #268 | 0.56 |
| 1961 | 1,268 | #247 | 0.63 |
| 1960 | 1,385 | #230 | 0.68 |
| 1959 | 1,359 | #232 | 0.67 |
| 1958 | 1,422 | #217 | 0.71 |
| 1957 | 1,535 | #214 | 0.75 |
| 1956 | 1,576 | #204 | 0.78 |
| 1955 | 1,450 | #212 | 0.74 |
| 1954 | 917 | #281 | 0.47 |
| 1953 | 757 | #297 | 0.40 |
| 1952 | 81 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 74 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,558 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,643 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,046 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,974 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,300 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,625 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,849 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 29,502 Americans recorded as Joni, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 112 girls and 12 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joni, and how old are they?
25,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 29,502 Americans ever recorded as Joni. The median Joni alive today is 61 years old; half are between 46 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 25,986 people named Joni (25,159 women and girls, 827 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 134 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,600 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 922 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Joni born?
The states with the most babies named Joni are California, Texas and Ohio, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,309 | #1,532 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,770 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 1,736 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,307 | #1,500 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 1,234 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Iowa | 1,094 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 1,091 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,073 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 932 | #1,197 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 866 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Joni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joni is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1930 it was given 2.4 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 Joni 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 63,657 babies since 1880, Joni is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 300 babies (41%), again the 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 Joni
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 Joni and names like it
- Compare Joni and JonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJoni peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joni since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Joni.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joni alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.