girls:
3.1k births since 1880
#3135 (45th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1880
#4904 (37th percentile)
The name Johannah is the #4,904 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,069 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 36.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,135 (45.1% percentile) for all time with 3,069 births since 1880.
Johannah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Johannah is available in 122 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Johannah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #840) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 80 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Johannah ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 14.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johannah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Johannah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Johannah is pronounced as joh-HA-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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