girls:
2.5k births since 1925
#3499 (39th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1995
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1925
#5374 (31st percentile)
The name Johna is the #5,374 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,457 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 30.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,499 (38.8% percentile) for all time with 2,451 births since 1925. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1995.
Johna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for girls and 1995 for boys). Birth data for Johna is available in 85 out of the 92 years between 1925 and 2016 (85 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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.
The name Johna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Johna reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 12.1% percentile (ranked #679) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 49 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Johna reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #799) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johna".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Johna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.0% confident that Johna is pronounced as JAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-nuh, at 45.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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