Johnny
About 321,696 American babies have been named Johnny since 1880, most of them around 1947. In 2025 it ranked 457th. About 216,000 Johnnys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Johnny boys named Johnny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 321,696
- Estimated living today
- 216,000
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 49th
- Rank in 2025
- 457th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 3,778 / 317,918
How old the living Johnnys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 321,696 babies given the name since 1880, about 216,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 81,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 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
. In the sense of an Englishman, compare John Bull.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Johnnys
- Johnny Depp (born 1963)American actor
- Johnny Cash (1932–2003)American country singer
- Johnny Hallyday (1943–2017)French musician, singer and actor
- Johnny Weissmuller (1904–1984)American swimmer, water polo player, and actor
- Johnny Carson (1925–2005)American talk show host and comedian
- Johnny Galecki (born 1975)American actor
- Johnny Logan (born 1954)Irish singer and songwriter
- Johnny Sins (born 1978)American adult film performer
People named Johnny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Johnny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Johnny is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.3×), Alabama (2.9×), New Mexico (2.9×), Arkansas (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Johnny peaked:
Johnny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Johnny | 15,375 | 115th |
| Norway boys | Johnny | 4,722 | 44th |
| England and Wales boys | Johnny | 2,454 | 377th |
| Ireland boys | Johnny | 531 | 171st |
| Italy boys | Johnny | 322 | — |
| Scotland boys | Johnny | 252 | 287th |
| Belgium boys | Johnny | 221 | 285th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Johnny | 183 | 178th |
| Switzerland boys | Johnny | 116 | 599th |
| Poland boys | Johnny | 7 birth registrations | 510th |
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.
Johnny: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Johnny | 86 | 0.007% | 609th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Johnny | 22 | 0.005% | 320th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Johnny | 7 | 0.011% | 177th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Johnny | 1 | 0.027% | 22nd |
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.
Johnny: rank by region
In 2007, Johnny was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Johnny | 404 | 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.
Johnny by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 69 | 253rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Johnny 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 | Johnny | 5,981 | 6,960 |
| Finland boys | Johnny | 660 | 861 |
| the Netherlands girls | Johnny | 7 | 42 |
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 Johnny lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 486 men called Johnny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Johnny | 8 | 0.048 | 1,218 |
| Málaga | Johnny | 35 | 0.040 | 1,294 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Johnny | 40 | 0.040 | 1,592 |
| Ourense | Johnny | 5 | 0.034 | 1,197 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Johnny | 18 | 0.034 | 2,227 |
| Pontevedra | Johnny | 14 | 0.031 | 1,241 |
Listed in 24 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 28 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
Johnny 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.