first name
JONNIE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,322 people named Jonnie, 67.5% reported their origin as White, 18.5% as Black and 6.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 71.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jonnie peaked in 1947, when 186 babies got the name.
At least 9,061 babies have been given the name since 1881. 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.
Jonnie by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #1,117. The largest share of babies named Jonnie, 26.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Jonnie is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jonnie has been most common in Mississippi (10×), Georgia (5.9×), and Alabama (5.4×), and least common in Ohio (0.36×).
3,463 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.
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