girls:
26 births since 1920
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.6k births since 1888
#2087 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1888
#4573 (41st percentile)
The name Johny is the #4,573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,582 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 40.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,087 (54.5% percentile) for all time with 3,556 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1920.
Johny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Johny is available in 125 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (125 years for boys and 4 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 Johny has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Johny reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #466) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 84 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2006, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Johny ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 9.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Johny reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #589) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Johny".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Johny", 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 2 different pronunciations for the name Johny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Johny is pronounced as JAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-nee, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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