Girls' name · since 1989
Joniesha
Joniesha has 17 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1996 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #47,810 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 1989
- 1990s
- peak decade
Joniesha is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 17 have been recorded since 1989.
Joniesha has 17 recorded births among girls since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 1999.
- #47,810 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 17 born since 1989
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Joniesha ranks #47,810 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 17 born since 1989, peaking in the 1990s.
- #47,810 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 1989
- 1990s
- peak decade
Joniesha's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joniesha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Joniesha's full recorded timeline at 1996, 71% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 29% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1989, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1996 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Joniesha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–1999
- Peak year (1996)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Joniesha by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (12 births, 71% of the file).
1990s was Joniesha's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 71% of all-time use.
Joniesha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window.
- 1980s
1980s
5 births
- 1990s
1990s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 12 births (71% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Joniesha: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1996)
Similar record span (~10 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joniesha draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.