How Many People Are Named Johnie?

4,881

people named Johnie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 70,023 people in the US has this name

Based on 26,074 babies named Johnie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,785

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,426

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Peak Year

1920

854 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JAHN-ee (American English), JAWN-ee (British English)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Diminutive of JOHN, sometimes used as a feminine form.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Johnie in English. Counting Johnie and these spellings together, about 282,934 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
18.1%
Male
81.9%

Of the babies given the name Johnie, 18.1% were girls and 81.9% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 18.2% of the babies were girls then and 9.3% in the 2010s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Johnie alive today is about 64 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 52 and 81 in 2025.

Under 30 395
8.1%
30 to 59 1,289
26.4%
60 and over 3,197
65.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Johnie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1920, to 854 babies. In 2025, 15 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Johnie has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #141, in 1908. In 2025 it ranked #7,923. Among girls, its best rank was #483, in 1907.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025#7,923#15,970
Best rank#141 (1908)#483 (1907)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#223 in the 1920s#554 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Johnie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Johnie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 407 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Johnie was given 7.3 times as often in Mississippi, 4.8 times in Arkansas and 3.9 times in Alabama.

Texas 407
Mississippi 385
California 183
Arkansas 171
Alabama 165
North Carolina 163
Kentucky 146
Georgia 123
Oklahoma 108
Tennessee 108
South Carolina 104
Virginia 52
Missouri 43
Florida 41
Illinois 38
Ohio 37
Michigan 36
West Virginia 30
Louisiana 26
Indiana 24
New York 15
Kansas 7

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