How rare is the name Johnie?

4,381 people in the United States have the first name Johnie, about 1 in 68,941. It ranks #4,321 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JOHNIE

#4,321

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,381
About
1 in 68,941
This common or more
83.9%
Who bears it

Of the 4,381 people named Johnie, 59% reported their origin as White, 30.6% as Black and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 80% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Johnie peaked in 1920, when 854 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
854
In 2025*
15 ▼98%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 26,074 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Johnie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #388. The largest share of babies named Johnie, 50.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#640329
1890s#513771
1900s#3881,639
1910s#4055,376
1920s#4227,560
1930s#5654,275
1940s#8892,399
1950s#1,4341,353
1960s#1,993834
1970s#2,689581
1980s#4,084380
1990s#6,400275
2000s#13,457133
2010s#15,971108
2020s#16,01261
Before 19014.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2750.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4527.5%
Baby boom 1946–6410.1%
Generation X 1965–803.8%
Millennials 1981–962.1%
Generation Z 1997–120.9%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Johnie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Johnie has been most common in Mississippi (11×), Arkansas (7.4×), and Alabama (5.5×), and least common in Michigan (0.07×).

19,353 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Johnie

#4,319 Cinthya · 4,384#4,320 Yair · 4,382#4,322 Poppy · 4,380#4,322 Silvio · 4,380

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Johnie, most common first.

#939 Johnnie · 47,521#3,727 Joanie · 5,429#4,355 Jonnie · 4,322#10,543 Jonie · 1,257#19,149 Johnae · 557#22,610 Johni · 439#33,663 Johne · 245#46,524 Johnia · 143

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