girls:
3.8k births since 1896
#2815 (51st percentile)
boys:
316.5k births since 1880
#105 (98th percentile)
overall:
320.3k births since 1880
#235 (97th percentile)
The name Johnny is the #235 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 320,271 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #105 (97.7% percentile) for all time with 316,510 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,815 (50.7% percentile) for all time with 3,761 births since 1896.
Johnny has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1896 for girls).
The name Johnny has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Johnny reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #47) with 4,005 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 4,155 births per million (ranked 91.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Johnny ranks #400 for boys (56.2% percentile) with 388 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Johnny reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 10.7% percentile (ranked #541) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johnny".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Johnny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Johnny is pronounced as JAH-nee, which has 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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