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Johnny
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑn.i/
Rank in 2024
#459
Born in 2024
679
Peak year
1947 · #49
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:9 in 2024 (#10,697)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 679 boys were named Johnny, about 1 in every 2,526.
- It peaked in 1947 with 7,442 babies, ranked #49.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 317,213 boys have been named Johnny since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Johnny per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.8Greatest1901–27
- 2.8Silent1928–45
- 3.2Boomers1946–64
- 2.1Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 12,857 babies, 0.77 per 1,000. Silent: 56,972 babies, 2.76 per 1,000. Boomers: 122,021 babies, 3.25 per 1,000. Gen X: 56,155 babies, 2.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 34,893 babies, 1.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 22,559 babies, 0.72 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 11,174 babies, 0.51 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From John + -y. In the sense of an Englishman, compare John Bull.
- A diminutive of the male given name John.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɑn.i/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Johnny, CC BY-SA 4.0.