In 2025, 24 US girls were named Johannah, making it the 5,311th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,763 places from #7,074 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 16 girls named Johannah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #662, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 110, in 2010. For comparison, it was #2,462 in 2015 and #3,539 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johannah in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 3,113 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 633 babies named Johannah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 284 US girls were named Johannah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Johanna (54,376 babies since 1880), Joanna (112,067 babies since 1880), Johnna (10,029 babies since 1880) and Johana (6,978 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Hannah, Jo, Joan, Jody and Nonie.