Johnnie
The boy's name Johnnie has been in the national records since 1880, with 151,295 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,284th. About 59,000 Johnnies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Johnnie boys named Johnnie
Girls and boys called Johnnie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 49,196 girls and 102,099 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 42 to 61.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 146 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
- 151,295
- Estimated living today
- 59,000
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 103rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,284th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 49,196 / 102,099
How old the living Johnnies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 151,295 babies given the name since 1880, about 59,000 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 33,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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.
Notable Johnnies
- Johnnie To (born 1955)Hong Kong filmmaker
- Johnnie Parsons (1918–1984)American racing driver
- Johnnie Ray (1927–1990)American singer and pianist
- Johnnie Johnson (1924–2005)American musician
- Johnnie Taylor (1937–2000)American male singer and songwriter
- Johnnie Cochran (1937–2005)American attorney
- Johnnie Tolan (1917–1986)American racing driver
- Johnnie Johnson (1915–2001)British RAF flying ace in WWII
People named Johnnie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Johnnie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Johnnie is most concentrated in Mississippi (7.5×), Alabama (5.3×), South Carolina (4.0×), Georgia (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular boys’ names the year Johnnie peaked:
Johnnie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Johnnie | 212 | 1,627th |
| Scotland boys | Johnnie | 16 | 240th |
| France boys | Johnnie | 15 | 1,334th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Johnnie | 6 | 341st |
| Ireland boys | Johnnie | 3 | 779th |
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.
Johnnie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Johnnie | 8 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Related names
Johnnie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.