Jonny
The boy's name Jonny has been in the national records since 1912, with 3,532 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,379th. About 2,900 Jonnys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jonny boys named Jonny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,532
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 1,838th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,379th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 131 / 3,401
How old the living Jonnys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,532 babies given the name since 1912, about 2,900 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 840 of them are children and 480 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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 Jonnys
- Jonny Evans (born 1988)Northern Irish association football player
- Jonny Greenwood (born 1971)British musician
- Jonny Buckland (born 1977)British guitarist
- Jonny Lee Miller (born 1972)British actor
- Jonny Williams (born 1993)Welsh association footballer
- Jonny Wilkinson (born 1979)English rugby union footballer
- Jonny Kim (born 1984)American physician, Navy SEAL, and NASA astronaut
- Jonny Magallón (born 1981)Mexican footballer
People named Jonny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jonny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jonny is most concentrated in California (5.9×), Texas (2.4×), New York (1.6×), Florida (0.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Jonny peaked:
Jonny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Jonny | 2,789 | 55th |
| England and Wales boys | Jonny | 715 | 391st |
| France boys | Jonny | 325 | 627th |
| Scotland boys | Jonny | 17 | 595th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jonny | 6 | 255th |
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.
Jonny by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 7 | 394th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jonny 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 | Jonny | 339 | 425 |
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
Jonny 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.