Johnie
Johnie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 141st, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920706 births
- Best rank
- #141in 1908
- Since 1880
- 26,059people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,920 boys have been named Johnie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 706 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 706 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Johnie is used for both sexes: 20% of its bearers are girls (5,139), most of them born around 1918.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Johnie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 269 | |
| 1890s | 604 | |
| 1900s | 1,276 | |
| 1910s | 4,204 | |
| 1920s | 5,901 | |
| 1930s | 3,450 | |
| 1940s | 1,968 | |
| 1950s | 1,157 | |
| 1960s | 760 | |
| 1970s | 503 | |
| 1980s | 332 | |
| 1990s | 233 | |
| 2000s | 127 | |
| 2010s | 98 | |
| 2020s | 38 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Johnie was the 192nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Johnie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ewellpeak 1919
- Vesterpeak 1922
- Cyrilpeak 1916
- Aciepeak 1928
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Romiepeak 1920
- Orvalpeak 1918
- Herschelpeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.