Johannes
Johannes is a boy's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 2,228th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,480th. About 2,100 Johanneses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Johannes
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,314
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 2,228th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,480th
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Johanneses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,314 babies given the name since 1913, about 2,100 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 850 of them are children and 70 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Latin, from Koine Greek, from Biblical Hebrew
From Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης, from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Johanness
- Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)German mathematician and astronomer
- Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468)German inventor and craftsman
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)German composer
- Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)Dutch painter
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923)Dutch physicist
- Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950)Danish author
- Johannes Stark (1874–1957)German physicist
- Johannes Rau (1931–2006)German politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004
People named Johannes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Johannes is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Johannes is most concentrated in California (7.1×), Texas (1.5×), New York (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Johannes peaked:
Johannes elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Johannes | 16,919 | 18th |
| Norway boys | Johannes | 9,687 | 6th |
| Sweden boys | Johannes | 2,714 | 48th |
| France boys | Johannes +1 spelling | 755 | 612th |
| Italy boys | Johannes | 490 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Johannes | 377 | 285th |
| England and Wales boys | Johannes | 336 | 1,327th |
| Belgium boys | Johannes | 323 | 363rd |
| Poland boys | Johannes | 24 birth registrations | 411th |
| Scotland boys | Johannes | 4 | 501st |
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.
Johannes: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Johannes | 359 | 0.029% | 198th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Johannes | 16 | 0.004% | 434th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Johannes | 2 | 0.003% | 184th |
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, Johannes is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.06% of children were given it – 34 of them.
Johannes: rank by region
In 2024, Johannes was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Johannes | 527 | 10 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Johannes appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (204th).
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.
Johannes by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 176 | 99th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Johannes 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 | Johannes | 291,406 | 813,633 |
| Finland boys | Johannes | 4,141 | 129,998 |
| the Netherlands girls | Johannes | 13 | 6,827 |
| Finland girls | Johannes | 5 | 53 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 6,827 who carry it, 13 go by it.
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 Johannes lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 385 men called Johannes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Johannes | 84 | 0.084 | 884 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Johannes | 28 | 0.053 | 1,521 |
| Málaga | Johannes | 38 | 0.043 | 1,212 |
| Balears, Illes | Johannes | 25 | 0.040 | 1,431 |
| Palmas, Las | Johannes | 20 | 0.034 | 2,144 |
| Girona | Johannes | 13 | 0.031 | 1,773 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 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
Johannes 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.