In 2025, 16 US girls were named Jonnie, making it the 6,969th most common girls’ name of the year, up 433 places from #7,402 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 girls named Jonnie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #687, reached in 1944. The most girls given the name in a single year was 136, in 1947. For comparison, it was #6,129 in 2015 and #816 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Jonnie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #540, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 73, in 1919. For comparison, it was #6,871 in 2015 and #1,031 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jonnie in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 9,061 US babies have been given the name, 65% of them girls and 35% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,507 babies named Jonnie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 138 US girls were named Jonnie; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls 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), Jonny (3,532 babies since 1880) and Joni (29,502 babies since 1880).