How Many People Are Named Jonny?

2,878

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

About 1 in 118,757 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,532 babies named Jonny in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,311

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,985

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Peak Year

2008

79 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JAHN-ee
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Diminutive of JONATHAN.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

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

Related & Similar Names

IonathanYehonatanYonatanJehonathanJonathanJonatanBRITISHJontyJonYoniIonatรกnGionataJรดnatasYahwehJohnathan

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
2.9%
Male
97.1%

Of the babies given the name Jonny, 2.9% were girls and 97.1% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1930s: 7.1% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2020s.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Jonny alive today is about 36 years old, and 49% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 57 in 2025.

Under 30 1,397
48.5%
30 to 59 831
28.9%
60 and over 650
22.6%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Jonny first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2008, to 79 babies. In 2025, 34 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Jonny has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,095, in 1967. In 2025 it ranked #3,406.

Boys
Rank in 2025#3,406
Best rank#1,095 (1967)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,130 in the 2000s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Jonny were born in California than in any other state: about 458 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jonny was given 4.5 times as often in California, 2 times in Texas and 1.8 times in New York.

California 458
Texas 140
New York 92
Florida 20
Illinois 12
Georgia 8
Ohio 6
New Jersey 6
Washington 5
Indiana 4
Oklahoma 3

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