Meaning not yet researched.
Johny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #727 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #727 in 1905; #12,894 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Johny in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,894 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #727.
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Johny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #727 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 70 (1929).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Johny, making it the 12,894th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,252 places from #8,642 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 9 boys named Johny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #727, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 70, in 1929. For comparison, it was #3,737 in 2015 and #1,588 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Johny in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 3,597 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 531 babies named Johny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 156 US boys were named Johny; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Johnny (321,696 babies since 1880), Joni (29,502 babies since 1880), Johnie (26,074 babies since 1880) and Jonny (3,532 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Juany 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Juany (10).
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 Johny in the open dataset we use.
Johny is listed as a nickname for Johnathan, Johnathon, Jonathan, Jonathon.
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 | — | — | 5 | #12,894 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,642 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,065 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,302 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,879 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,131 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,953 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,009 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,170 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,252 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,737 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,185 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,231 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,750 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,396 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,983 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,515 |
| 2008 | — | — | 34 | #3,311 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,842 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #3,001 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,734 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,769 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,700 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,725 |
| 2001 | — | — | 51 | #2,073 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,115 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,762 |
| 1998 | — | — | 26 | #3,051 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,644 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,787 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,321 |
| 1994 | — | — | 34 | #2,329 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,270 |
| 1992 | — | — | 42 | #1,941 |
| 1991 | — | — | 36 | #2,073 |
| 1990 | — | — | 54 | #1,551 |
| 1989 | — | — | 31 | #2,219 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,556 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #1,994 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,327 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,643 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,483 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,881 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,766 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,066 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,505 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,510 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,426 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,605 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,656 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,827 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,736 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,173 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,594 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,414 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,766 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,705 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #1,991 |
| 1967 | — | — | 27 | #1,490 |
| 1966 | — | — | 28 | #1,468 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,695 |
| 1964 | — | — | 22 | #1,714 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,721 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,570 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,183 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,540 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,742 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,569 |
| 1957 | — | — | 27 | #1,532 |
| 1956 | — | — | 21 | #1,744 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,821 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,531 |
| 1953 | — | — | 23 | #1,614 |
| 1952 | — | — | 27 | #1,476 |
| 1951 | — | — | 36 | #1,230 |
| 1950 | — | — | 22 | #1,588 |
| 1949 | — | — | 37 | #1,172 |
| 1948 | — | — | 37 | #1,184 |
| 1947 | — | — | 36 | #1,221 |
| 1946 | — | — | 32 | #1,249 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,094 |
| 1944 | — | — | 34 | #1,145 |
| 1943 | — | — | 39 | #1,095 |
| 1942 | — | — | 28 | #1,324 |
| 1941 | — | — | 35 | #1,118 |
| 1940 | — | — | 37 | #1,081 |
| 1939 | — | — | 35 | #1,096 |
| 1938 | — | — | 34 | #1,120 |
| 1937 | — | — | 39 | #1,026 |
| 1936 | — | — | 38 | #1,037 |
| 1935 | — | — | 48 | #919 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,040 | 41 | #1,015 |
| 1933 | — | — | 47 | #915 |
| 1932 | — | — | 46 | #974 |
| 1931 | — | — | 51 | #905 |
| 1930 | — | — | 49 | #967 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,534 | 70 | #768 |
| 1928 | — | — | 58 | #879 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,201 | 57 | #904 |
| 1926 | — | — | 54 | #923 |
| 1925 | — | — | 43 | #1,060 |
| 1924 | — | — | 49 | #1,010 |
| 1923 | — | — | 52 | #958 |
| 1922 | — | — | 40 | #1,127 |
| 1921 | — | — | 41 | #1,113 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,176 | 47 | #1,011 |
| 1919 | — | — | 51 | #943 |
| 1918 | — | — | 36 | #1,163 |
| 1917 | — | — | 33 | #1,188 |
| 1916 | — | — | 30 | #1,226 |
| 1915 | — | — | 27 | #1,286 |
| 1914 | — | — | 20 | #1,368 |
| 1913 | — | — | 23 | #1,065 |
| 1912 | — | — | 26 | #886 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,337 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,507 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #786 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,299 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #904 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #886 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #727 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #1,021 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #981 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,109 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,131 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #945 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #983 |
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).