girls:
5.8k births since 1881
#2172 (62nd percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1891
#2215 (52nd percentile)
overall:
9k births since 1881
#2841 (63rd percentile)
The name Jonnie is the #2,841 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,032 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 63.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,172 (62.0% percentile) for all time with 5,849 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #2,215 (51.7% percentile) for all time with 3,183 births since 1891.
Jonnie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1891 for boys). Birth data for Jonnie is available in 138 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 123 years for boys). 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 Jonnie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (64.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jonnie were girls.
For girls, Jonnie reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 19.0% percentile (ranked #555) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 87 births per million (ranked 18.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jonnie ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 9.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jonnie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 12.7% percentile (ranked #467) with 72 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 131 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonnie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jonnie is pronounced as JAH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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