Meaning not yet researched.
Johnson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #327 in 1905; #3,406 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Johnson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,406 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #327.
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Johnson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #327 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 111 (2000).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Johnson, making it the 3,406th most common boys’ name of the year, up 153 places from #3,559 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 32 boys named Johnson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #327, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 111, in 2000. For comparison, it was #1,941 in 2015 and #1,044 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johnson in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 7,043 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 884 babies named Johnson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 518 US boys were named Johnson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Johansen, Jonson and Johanson are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Johansen (23), Jonson (16), Johanson (5).
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 Johnson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 34 | #3,406 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,559 |
| 2023 | — | — | 48 | #2,714 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,691 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,753 |
| 2020 | — | — | 62 | #2,221 |
| 2019 | — | — | 59 | #2,323 |
| 2018 | — | — | 55 | #2,402 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,204 |
| 2016 | — | — | 72 | #2,001 |
| 2015 | — | — | 75 | #1,941 |
| 2014 | — | — | 61 | #2,219 |
| 2013 | — | — | 62 | #2,150 |
| 2012 | — | — | 64 | #2,114 |
| 2011 | — | — | 72 | #1,939 |
| 2010 | — | — | 60 | #2,197 |
| 2009 | — | — | 85 | #1,779 |
| 2008 | — | — | 71 | #1,995 |
| 2007 | — | — | 95 | #1,629 |
| 2006 | — | — | 94 | #1,568 |
| 2005 | — | — | 78 | #1,717 |
| 2004 | — | — | 87 | #1,536 |
| 2003 | — | — | 97 | #1,384 |
| 2002 | — | — | 79 | #1,564 |
| 2001 | — | — | 82 | #1,490 |
| 2000 | — | — | 111 | #1,216 |
| 1999 | — | — | 78 | #1,474 |
| 1998 | — | — | 65 | #1,608 |
| 1997 | — | — | 85 | #1,330 |
| 1996 | — | — | 102 | #1,158 |
| 1995 | — | — | 93 | #1,204 |
| 1994 | — | — | 87 | #1,249 |
| 1993 | — | — | 106 | #1,089 |
| 1992 | — | — | 87 | #1,202 |
| 1991 | — | — | 92 | #1,152 |
| 1990 | — | — | 89 | #1,153 |
| 1989 | — | — | 98 | #1,050 |
| 1988 | — | — | 91 | #1,035 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,100 | 99 | #949 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,698 | 89 | #976 |
| 1985 | — | — | 82 | #1,008 |
| 1984 | — | — | 68 | #1,091 |
| 1983 | — | — | 85 | #960 |
| 1982 | — | — | 92 | #940 |
| 1981 | — | — | 63 | #1,160 |
| 1980 | — | — | 55 | #1,249 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,612 |
| 1978 | — | — | 30 | #1,774 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,914 | 21 | #2,241 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,560 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,915 |
| 1974 | — | — | 32 | #1,563 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,270 |
| 1972 | — | — | 30 | #1,583 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,953 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,094 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,510 |
| 1968 | — | — | 31 | #1,410 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,425 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,386 |
| 1965 | — | — | 37 | #1,261 |
| 1964 | — | — | 43 | #1,181 |
| 1963 | — | — | 41 | #1,219 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,410 |
| 1961 | — | — | 42 | #1,228 |
| 1960 | — | — | 38 | #1,279 |
| 1959 | — | — | 29 | #1,480 |
| 1958 | — | — | 27 | #1,520 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,228 |
| 1956 | — | — | 26 | #1,554 |
| 1955 | — | — | 31 | #1,386 |
| 1954 | — | — | 41 | #1,177 |
| 1953 | — | — | 40 | #1,177 |
| 1952 | — | — | 45 | #1,087 |
| 1951 | — | — | 39 | #1,160 |
| 1950 | — | — | 46 | #1,044 |
| 1949 | — | — | 45 | #1,055 |
| 1948 | — | — | 60 | #882 |
| 1947 | — | — | 51 | #1,004 |
| 1946 | — | — | 40 | #1,107 |
| 1945 | — | — | 47 | #947 |
| 1944 | — | — | 55 | #856 |
| 1943 | — | — | 51 | #936 |
| 1942 | — | — | 54 | #905 |
| 1941 | — | — | 37 | #1,079 |
| 1940 | — | — | 32 | #1,196 |
| 1939 | — | — | 37 | #1,063 |
| 1938 | — | — | 44 | #955 |
| 1937 | — | — | 37 | #1,064 |
| 1936 | — | — | 37 | #1,059 |
| 1935 | — | — | 39 | #1,031 |
| 1934 | — | — | 40 | #1,033 |
| 1933 | — | — | 38 | #1,062 |
| 1932 | — | — | 54 | #870 |
| 1931 | — | — | 33 | #1,206 |
| 1930 | — | — | 52 | #932 |
| 1929 | — | — | 58 | #874 |
| 1928 | — | — | 66 | #810 |
| 1927 | — | — | 57 | #903 |
| 1926 | — | — | 61 | #846 |
| 1925 | — | — | 57 | #894 |
| 1924 | — | — | 64 | #862 |
| 1923 | — | — | 63 | #855 |
| 1922 | — | — | 52 | #984 |
| 1921 | — | — | 85 | #712 |
| 1920 | — | — | 69 | #809 |
| 1919 | — | — | 77 | #724 |
| 1918 | — | — | 79 | #716 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,340 | 54 | #867 |
| 1916 | — | — | 70 | #718 |
| 1915 | — | — | 74 | #677 |
| 1914 | — | — | 52 | #729 |
| 1913 | — | — | 32 | #865 |
| 1912 | — | — | 42 | #656 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #776 |
| 1910 | — | — | 24 | #592 |
| 1909 | — | — | 24 | #539 |
| 1908 | — | — | 17 | #644 |
| 1907 | — | — | 16 | #649 |
| 1906 | — | — | 25 | #449 |
| 1905 | — | — | 38 | #327 |
| 1904 | — | — | 20 | #483 |
| 1903 | — | — | 14 | #604 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #628 |
| 1901 | — | — | 18 | #459 |
| 1900 | — | — | 36 | #370 |
| 1899 | — | — | 22 | #399 |
| 1898 | — | — | 10 | #721 |
| 1897 | — | — | 11 | #666 |
| 1896 | — | — | 20 | #450 |
| 1895 | — | — | 13 | #589 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,019 |
| 1893 | — | — | 13 | #556 |
| 1892 | — | — | 20 | #432 |
| 1891 | — | — | 24 | #353 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #471 |
| 1889 | — | — | 13 | #536 |
| 1888 | — | — | 18 | #455 |
| 1887 | — | — | 11 | #566 |
| 1886 | — | — | 11 | #586 |
| 1885 | — | — | 13 | #534 |
| 1884 | — | — | 13 | #532 |
| 1883 | — | — | 12 | #542 |
| 1882 | — | — | 11 | #591 |
| 1881 | — | — | 11 | #546 |
| 1880 | — | — | 13 | #512 |
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).