Johann
Johann is a boy's name that peaked in 2010, when it was the 910th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,852nd. About 5,000 Johanns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Johann boys named Johann
Girls and boys called Johann
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Johann crossed from girls to boys in 1957, and has stayed there for 61 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 63 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,519
- Estimated living today
- 5,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 910th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,852nd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 650 / 4,869
How old the living Johanns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,519 babies given the name since 1912, about 5,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin German
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Johanns
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)German composer
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)German philosopher
- Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803)German philosopher, theologian, poet
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899)Austrian composer
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827)Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
- Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748)Swiss mathematician
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859)German mathematician
People named Johann with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Johann is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Johann is most concentrated in California (3.5×), Florida (2.9×), New York (1.9×), New Jersey (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular boys’ names the year Johann peaked:
Johann elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Johann | 19,415 | 90th |
| Austria boys | Johann | 884 | 41st |
| Switzerland boys | Johann | 433 | 335th |
| Norway boys | Johann | 375 | 239th |
| England and Wales boys | Johann | 280 | 1,270th |
| France girls | Johann | 110 | 1,180th |
| Ireland boys | Johann | 81 | 196th |
| Scotland girls | Johann | 23 | 402nd |
| Belgium boys | Johann | 18 | 883rd |
| Poland boys | Johann | 7 birth registrations | 595th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Johann: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Johann | 318 | 0.026% | 278th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Johann | 113 | 0.026% | 158th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Johann | 1 | 0.002% | 193rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Johann | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Johann is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.07% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Johann: rank by region
In 1999, Johann was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Johann | 350 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Johann by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 405 | 49th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Johann among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Johann | 1,849 | 3,554 |
| Finland boys | Johann | 65 | 232 |
| the Netherlands girls | Johann | — | 23 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Johann lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 231 men called Johann were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Johann | 23 | 0.043 | 1,817 |
| Palmas, Las | Johann | 20 | 0.034 | 2,144 |
| Balears, Illes | Johann | 15 | 0.024 | 2,254 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Johann | 23 | 0.023 | 2,416 |
| Málaga | Johann | 12 | 0.014 | 3,050 |
| Cádiz | Johann | 8 | 0.013 | 2,018 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Johann against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.