Meaning not yet researched.
Joni: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #204 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #204 in 1956; #1,803 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Joni in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,803 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #204.
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Joni: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 girls in 2025. Peak: #204 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 1,576 (1956).
In 2025, 112 US girls were named Joni, making it the 1,803rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 73 places from #1,876 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 107 girls named Joni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #204, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,576. For comparison, it was #3,407 in 2015 and #1,339 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joni in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 7 babies. In all, 29,502 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 9,262 babies named Joni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 794 US girls were named Joni; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,351 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joni ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #588 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Johnie (26,074 babies since 1880), Jonnie (9,061 babies since 1880), Joanie (5,549 babies since 1880) and Johny (3,597 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joani, Jonee and Joniya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Joani (620), Jonee (295), Joniya (163), Joniah (137), Jonea (120), Jonia (95), Jonya (43), Junyi (11), Juny (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 Joni in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 6 | #588 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #654 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,043 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,197 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,200 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,500 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,532 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,803 | 12 | #6,988 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,876 | 18 | #5,327 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,279 | 11 | #7,494 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,218 | 7 | #10,299 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,298 | 9 | #8,491 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,230 | 13 | #6,455 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,637 | 8 | #9,274 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,765 | 13 | #6,521 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,883 | 16 | #5,653 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,780 | 19 | #5,033 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,407 | 13 | #6,500 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,250 | 12 | #6,843 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,582 | 14 | #6,064 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,439 | 14 | #6,135 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,294 | 12 | #6,788 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,667 | 7 | #10,183 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,704 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,741 | 15 | #5,915 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,164 | 18 | #5,103 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,588 | 9 | #8,363 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,990 | 12 | #6,405 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,217 | 18 | #4,685 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,930 | 9 | #7,533 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,034 | 13 | #5,556 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,614 | 13 | #5,517 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,266 | 11 | #6,109 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,826 | 10 | #6,261 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,476 | 11 | #5,640 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,374 | 11 | #5,459 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,114 | 10 | #5,755 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,751 | 13 | #4,651 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,668 | 16 | #4,007 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,525 | 10 | #5,555 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,385 | 11 | #5,049 |
| 1991 | 129 | #1,294 | 14 | #4,116 |
| 1990 | 170 | #1,053 | 8 | #6,116 |
| 1989 | 177 | #980 | — | — |
| 1988 | 229 | #805 | 7 | #6,099 |
| 1987 | 244 | #741 | — | — |
| 1986 | 300 | #623 | 6 | #6,306 |
| 1985 | 308 | #614 | 10 | #4,198 |
| 1984 | 374 | #520 | 6 | #5,949 |
| 1983 | 465 | #442 | 10 | #4,006 |
| 1982 | 588 | #392 | 7 | #5,303 |
| 1981 | 724 | #327 | 7 | #5,193 |
| 1980 | 757 | #319 | 12 | #3,506 |
| 1979 | 660 | #352 | 7 | #5,097 |
| 1978 | 656 | #333 | — | — |
| 1977 | 580 | #370 | 5 | #6,321 |
| 1976 | 586 | #359 | 11 | #3,375 |
| 1975 | 380 | #486 | 13 | #2,993 |
| 1974 | 266 | #596 | 6 | #4,926 |
| 1973 | 231 | #650 | 9 | #3,572 |
| 1972 | 221 | #674 | 7 | #4,195 |
| 1971 | 289 | #598 | 6 | #4,657 |
| 1970 | 344 | #545 | 5 | #5,081 |
| 1969 | 337 | #536 | 6 | #4,162 |
| 1968 | 399 | #482 | 11 | #2,660 |
| 1967 | 446 | #447 | 8 | #3,111 |
| 1966 | 588 | #377 | 7 | #3,372 |
| 1965 | 717 | #339 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 1964 | 935 | #303 | 7 | #3,442 |
| 1963 | 1,089 | #273 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,110 | #268 | 5 | #4,346 |
| 1961 | 1,268 | #247 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,385 | #230 | 6 | #3,852 |
| 1959 | 1,359 | #232 | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1958 | 1,422 | #217 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 1957 | 1,535 | #214 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,576 | #204 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 1955 | 1,450 | #212 | — | — |
| 1954 | 917 | #281 | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1953 | 757 | #297 | 9 | #2,810 |
| 1952 | 81 | #1,050 | 5 | #3,997 |
| 1951 | 74 | #1,086 | 5 | #3,980 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,288 | 5 | #3,829 |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,851 | — | — |
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).