Boy

Jonny

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#3,407
34 boys
2015
#2,789
rank
1950
#1,277
rank

Jonny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,095 in 1967.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,095 in 1967; #3,407 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jonny in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#3,407 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #1,095.

Babies in 2025
34
Since 1880
3,532
Years on record
108

Babies named Jonny, every year since 1880

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Boys

Jonny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,095 in 1967 · most boys in one year: 79 (2008).

About the name Jonny

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).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Jonny in the open dataset we use.

Jonny is listed as a nickname for John, Johnathan, Johnathon, Jon, Jonathan, Jonathon.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——34#3,407
2024——29#3,843
2023——39#3,148
2022——40#3,079
2021——36#3,270
2020——34#3,302
2019——42#2,915
2018——31#3,571
2017——43#2,820
2016——39#3,032
2015——43#2,789
2014——42#2,829
2013——63#2,125
2012——65#2,098
2011——65#2,069
2010——51#2,448
2009——72#1,965
2008——79#1,850
2007——58#2,268
2006——52#2,385
2005——59#2,096
2004——66#1,865
2003——43#2,451
2002——56#1,988
2001——56#1,944
2000——39#2,455
1999——33#2,645
1998——35#2,482
1997——38#2,243
1996——32#2,459
1995——48#1,821
1994——43#1,949
1993——34#2,271
1992——31#2,381
1991——39#1,968
1990——51#1,624
1989——32#2,177
1988——36#1,865
1987——28#2,151
1986——22#2,467
1985——22#2,385
1984——25#2,124
1983——27#1,984
1982——20#2,470
1981——12#3,506
1980——24#2,187
1979——20#2,423
1978——13#3,142
1977——25#1,971
1976——27#1,853
1975——22#2,090
1974——16#2,508
1973——27#1,719
1972——21#1,997
1971——33#1,507
1970——35#1,426
19697#6,22545#1,175
1968——40#1,209
1967——46#1,095
1966——31#1,387
1965——34#1,327
1964——47#1,118
1963——39#1,245
19626#6,17239#1,250
19618#5,06544#1,201
1960——46#1,157
19598#4,79646#1,146
1958——36#1,293
1957——35#1,332
19565#6,37531#1,404
1955——37#1,248
19546#5,41933#1,320
19536#5,32823#1,615
1952——26#1,502
19516#5,11321#1,662
1950——32#1,277
19497#4,43734#1,240
19489#3,72140#1,134
19476#4,99433#1,284
194613#2,80236#1,169
19459#3,25922#1,429
19448#3,53223#1,419
194311#2,94937#1,131
1942——30#1,288
1941——21#1,507
1940——14#1,939
1939——15#1,833
1938——13#2,039
1937——19#1,605
1936——14#1,930
1935——13#2,088
1934——13#2,078
19336#3,96612#2,154
19325#4,73418#1,753
1931——11#2,395
1930——16#1,928
1929——7#3,398
1928——8#3,231
1927——11#2,618
1926——7#3,554
1924——8#3,378
1923——11#2,699
1922——9#3,134
1921——7#3,702
1920——7#3,648
1919——9#3,000
19175#4,931——
1912——5#2,727

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).