In 2025, 10 US boys were named Johnie, making it the 7,927th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #141, reached in 1908. The most boys given the name in a single year was 706, in 1920. For comparison, it was #7,754 in 2015 and #551 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Johnie, making it the 15,975th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,391 places from #11,584 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Johnie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #483, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 196, in 1918. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,743 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johnie in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 18 babies. In all, 26,074 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 7,560 babies named Johnie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 74 US boys were named Johnie; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Johnny (321,696 babies since 1880), Johnnie (151,295 babies since 1880), Joni (29,502 babies since 1880) and Jonnie (9,061 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Johniah are summarised on this page.