girls:
49.1k births since 1880
#583 (90th percentile)
boys:
102k births since 1880
#303 (93rd percentile)
overall:
151.1k births since 1880
#499 (94th percentile)
The name Johnnie is the #499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 151,078 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #303 (93.4% percentile) for all time with 101,965 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #583 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 49,113 births since 1880.
Johnnie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Johnnie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (67.5% of all recorded births). In 2023, 66.7% of babies named Johnnie were boys.
For boys, Johnnie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 82.8% percentile (ranked #93) with 1,690 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 2,407 births per million (ranked 75.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Johnnie ranks #850 for boys (6.7% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Johnnie reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 70.4% percentile (ranked #180) with 944 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 944 births per million (ranked 70.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Johnnie ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johnnie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Johnnie", 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 found one way to pronounce the name Johnnie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Johnnie is pronounced as JAH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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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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