girls:
5.1k births since 1881
#2358 (59th percentile)
boys:
20.9k births since 1880
#797 (83rd percentile)
overall:
26.1k births since 1880
#1568 (80th percentile)
The name Johnie is the #1,568 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,051 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #797 (82.6% percentile) for all time with 20,920 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,358 (58.7% percentile) for all time with 5,131 births since 1881.
Johnie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls). Birth data for Johnie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 113 years for girls). 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 Johnie has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Johnie were boys.
For boys, Johnie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 66.1% percentile (ranked #182) with 635 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 1,034 births per million (ranked 51.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Johnie ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Johnie reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 30.6% percentile (ranked #410) with 163 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 163 births per million (ranked 30.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johnie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Johnie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 32 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Johnny" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Johnny..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Johnie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.7% confident that Johnie is pronounced as JAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-nee, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AA1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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