Jonny
Jonny is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200879 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 3,498people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,367 boys have been named Jonny in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 79 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 2000s alone account for 17%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 131 girls have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jonny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 14 | |
| 1920s | 75 | |
| 1930s | 144 | |
| 1940s | 290 | |
| 1950s | 320 | |
| 1960s | 411 | |
| 1970s | 239 | |
| 1980s | 248 | |
| 1990s | 384 | |
| 2000s | 580 | |
| 2010s | 484 | |
| 2020s | 178 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Jonny was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Jonny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sammuelpeak 2009
- Frankypeak 2007
- Luckypeak 2024
- Kentonpeak 2014
- Thaynepeak 2016
- Patriciopeak 2009
- Gavinopeak 2008
- Eddypeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
- Johnny320,983 ever
- Johnnie151,182 ever
- Johnie26,059 ever
- Johny3,565 ever
- Jhonny1,830 ever
- Johney1,519 ever
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.