In 2025, 34 US boys were named Jonny, making it the 3,407th most common boys’ name of the year, up 436 places from #3,843 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 29 boys named Jonny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,095, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 79, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,789 in 2015 and #1,277 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jonny in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 3,532 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 580 babies named Jonny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 367 US boys were named Jonny; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Johnny (321,696 babies since 1880), Jonnie (9,061 babies since 1880), Joni (29,502 babies since 1880) and Johny (3,597 babies since 1880).