Jonie
Jonie was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,365 among girls’ names; 1,290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Jonie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 43 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jonie?
#11,365 among girls’ names, 2025
Jonie entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,365 in 2025.
58 babies in 1979, the peak
Jonie peaked in 1979, when 58 girls were given it, #1,841 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,365 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,262 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,443 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,477 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,087 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,611 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,907 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,918 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,688 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,388 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | #10,790 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,168 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,801 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,331 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,452 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,154 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,800 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,055 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,916 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,658 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,660 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,990 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,554 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,812 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,660 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,642 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,279 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,230 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,172 | 28.2 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,167 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,841 | 36.1 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,899 | 33.9 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,982 | 32.0 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,980 | 30.7 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,633 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,929 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,279 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,972 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,659 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,935 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,246 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,904 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,136 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,315 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,776 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,592 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,390 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,696 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,053 | 16.3 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,606 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,257 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,886 | 16.9 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,937 | 15.6 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,882 | 16.4 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,187 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,639 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,152 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,179 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,601 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,434 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,039 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,144 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,687 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,919 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,766 | 5.8 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,072 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,525 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,577 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,374 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,166 | 4.4 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,390 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,290 Americans recorded as Jonie, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jonie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonie, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,290 Americans ever recorded as Jonie. The median Jonie alive today is 49 years old; half are between 43 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,257 people named Jonie (1,174 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 287 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 420 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 303 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jonie?
Jonie is a less common spelling of Joni: SSA has recorded 1,290 Jonie and 29,502 Joni since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 267,303 babies since 1880, Jonie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 307 babies (2.6%), the seventh 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 Jonie
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 Jonie and names like it
- Compare Jonie and JoniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJonie peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonie since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Jonie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jonie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.