Meaning not yet researched.
Johan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 516 in 2025. Its best rank was #451 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #451 in 2008; #572 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Johan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#572 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #451.
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Johan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 516 boys in 2025. Peak: #451 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 659 (2016).
In 2025, 516 US boys were named Johan, making it the 572nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #537 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 555 boys named Johan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #451, reached in 2008. The most boys given the name in a single year was 659, in 2016. For comparison, it was #559 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johan in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 14,788 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,363 babies named Johan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,182 US boys were named Johan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 659. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,310 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Johan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #340 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include John (5,204,377 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880), Joan (488,939 babies since 1880) and Jean (483,475 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Johan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 25 | #340 | #410 |
| Maryland | 14 | #373 | #466 |
| Nevada | 8 | #375 | #476 |
| Illinois | 28 | #384 | #568 |
| New York | 44 | #395 | #350 |
| California | 72 | #446 | #384 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #453 | #411 |
| Florida | 39 | #471 | #514 |
| Texas | 70 | #482 | #421 |
| Georgia | 21 | #507 | #688 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #531 | #337 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #532 | #354 |
| Iowa | 6 | #534 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #545 | #525 |
| Indiana | 12 | #564 | #955 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #569 | #705 |
| Virginia | 13 | #573 | #602 |
| Kansas | 5 | #638 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #648 | #739 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #658 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #660 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #699 | #553 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #718 | #755 |
| Arizona | 6 | #888 | #610 |
| Missouri | 5 | #925 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #960 | #598 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 516 | #572 |
| 2024 | — | — | 555 | #537 |
| 2023 | — | — | 517 | #564 |
| 2022 | — | — | 501 | #580 |
| 2021 | — | — | 438 | #631 |
| 2020 | — | — | 458 | #600 |
| 2019 | — | — | 481 | #580 |
| 2018 | — | — | 480 | #577 |
| 2017 | — | — | 577 | #503 |
| 2016 | — | — | 659 | #463 |
| 2015 | — | — | 514 | #559 |
| 2014 | — | — | 478 | #581 |
| 2013 | — | — | 496 | #534 |
| 2012 | — | — | 566 | #480 |
| 2011 | — | — | 520 | #502 |
| 2010 | — | — | 592 | #454 |
| 2009 | — | — | 573 | #478 |
| 2008 | — | — | 616 | #451 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,408 | 530 | #498 |
| 2006 | — | — | 476 | #531 |
| 2005 | — | — | 440 | #546 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,389 | 395 | #573 |
| 2003 | — | — | 388 | #570 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,815 | 447 | #511 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,657 | 393 | #547 |
| 2000 | — | — | 172 | #904 |
| 1999 | — | — | 180 | #838 |
| 1998 | — | — | 150 | #944 |
| 1997 | — | — | 117 | #1,084 |
| 1996 | — | — | 92 | #1,220 |
| 1995 | — | — | 78 | #1,331 |
| 1994 | — | — | 69 | #1,412 |
| 1993 | — | — | 38 | #2,110 |
| 1992 | — | — | 69 | #1,366 |
| 1991 | — | — | 57 | #1,536 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,919 |
| 1989 | — | — | 58 | #1,443 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,364 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,309 | 65 | #1,201 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,128 |
| 1985 | — | — | 33 | #1,814 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,387 |
| 1983 | — | — | 42 | #1,480 |
| 1982 | — | — | 47 | #1,385 |
| 1981 | — | — | 38 | #1,585 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,885 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,611 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,741 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,099 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,029 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,695 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,610 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,934 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,742 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,056 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,247 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,083 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,504 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,684 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,542 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,036 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #2,014 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,826 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,587 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,798 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,932 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,913 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,710 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,866 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,059 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,510 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,897 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,768 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,349 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,710 | 8 | #2,767 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,293 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,300 | 10 | #2,459 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,150 | 7 | #3,230 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,499 | 10 | #2,698 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,923 | 5 | #4,280 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,319 | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,651 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,571 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,668 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,029 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,132 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,557 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,646 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,997 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,331 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,826 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,726 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,789 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,721 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).