boys:
497 births since 1914
#4089 (11th percentile)
overall:
497 births since 1914
#7242 (6th percentile)
The name Johnston is the #7,242 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 497 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,089 (10.8% percentile) for all time with 497 births since 1914.
Johnston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for boys in 1914). Birth data for Johnston is available in 62 out of the 110 years between 1914 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 boys, Johnston reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #870) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 13 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Johnston ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 24.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johnston".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Johnston. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Johnston is pronounced as JAHN-stuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAWN-stuhn, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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