How popular is “Johnny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Johnny” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Johnny” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Johnny” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Johnny” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Johnny” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Johnny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Johnny” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	20	0.000099263		20	-100%
1881	13	0.000067467		13	-100%
1882	16	0.000072224		16	-100%
1883	14	0.000064532		14	-100%
1884	15	0.000061612		15	-100%
1885	21	0.00008719		21	-100%
1886	23	0.000090084		23	-100%
1887	31	0.000125307		31	-100%
1888	21	0.000070123		21	-100%
1889	20	0.000069217		20	-100%
1890	23	0.00007631		23	-100%
1891	31	0.000108137		31	-100%
1892	33	0.000098692		33	-100%
1893	21	0.000064571		21	-100%
1894	29	0.000085624		29	-100%
1895	35	0.000099709		35	-100%
1896	43	0.000120285	5	38	-77%
1897	36	0.000103759	5	31	-72%
1898	39	0.00010224		39	-100%
1899	36	0.000106121		36	-100%
1900	72	0.000159908		72	-100%
1901	48	0.000138804		48	-100%
1902	70	0.000181003		70	-100%
1903	59	0.000154774		59	-100%
1904	77	0.000190837		77	-100%
1905	83	0.000195791		83	-100%
1906	90	0.000210059	6	84	-87%
1907	105	0.000225617	8	97	-85%
1908	112	0.000229203	5	107	-91%
1909	124	0.000242555	7	117	-89%
1910	178	0.000301332	11	167	-88%
1911	157	0.000243684	10	147	-87%
1912	224	0.000226706	7	217	-94%
1913	278	0.000244479	15	263	-89%
1914	350	0.000247115	19	331	-89%
1915	446	0.000243393	29	417	-87%
1916	478	0.000247103	20	458	-92%
1917	557	0.000277563	27	530	-90%
1918	678	0.000312283	34	644	-90%
1919	696	0.00032982	36	660	-90%
1920	802	0.000354453	35	767	-91%
1921	871	0.000373098	47	824	-89%
1922	902	0.000394032	40	862	-91%
1923	1019	0.000442566	43	976	-92%
1924	1091	0.000458093	45	1046	-92%
1925	1210	0.000518578	43	1167	-93%
1926	1334	0.000581035	45	1289	-93%
1927	1395	0.00060146	45	1350	-94%
1928	1599	0.000707229	70	1529	-91%
1929	1578	0.000719838	46	1532	-94%
1930	1876	0.000843795	54	1822	-94%
1931	1760	0.000836348	43	1717	-95%
1932	2055	0.000973338	43	2012	-96%
1933	2100	0.00105029	47	2053	-96%
1934	2366	0.001139244	30	2336	-97%
1935	2572	0.001230681	39	2533	-97%
1936	2778	0.001337134	49	2729	-96%
1937	2862	0.001343239	36	2826	-97%
1938	3237	0.001463002	40	3197	-98%
1939	3405	0.00154531	35	3370	-98%
1940	4065	0.00176533	59	4006	-97%
1941	4032	0.001654884	49	3983	-98%
1942	4640	0.001698503	53	4587	-98%
1943	5436	0.001925912	54	5382	-98%
1944	5712	0.002123358	51	5661	-98%
1945	5748	0.002166677	51	5697	-98%
1946	6664	0.002085559	52	6612	-98%
1947	7498	0.002081435	56	7442	-99%
1948	6904	0.0019997	43	6861	-99%
1949	7043	0.002021077	75	6968	-98%
1950	6645	0.001896752	64	6581	-98%
1951	6761	0.001835363	61	6700	-98%
1952	6840	0.001800945	68	6772	-98%
1953	6784	0.001760412	67	6717	-98%
1954	6672	0.001676084	60	6612	-98%
1955	6673	0.001661984	54	6619	-98%
1956	6700	0.001625016	63	6637	-98%
1957	6559	0.00156087	52	6507	-98%
1958	6396	0.001547206	63	6333	-98%
1959	6385	0.001535597	77	6308	-98%
1960	6259	0.001506808	75	6184	-98%
1961	5976	0.001442676	72	5904	-98%
1962	5842	0.001447698	64	5778	-98%
1963	5472	0.001382447	54	5418	-98%
1964	5123	0.001317778	55	5068	-98%
1965	4728	0.001304114	43	4685	-98%
1966	4409	0.001268538	45	4364	-98%
1967	4224	0.00124422	55	4169	-97%
1968	4088	0.001210036	36	4052	-98%
1969	4268	0.001228087	51	4217	-98%
1970	4485	0.001243583	47	4438	-98%
1971	3985	0.00116101	46	3939	-98%
1972	3600	0.001145405	36	3564	-98%
1973	3313	0.001098152	46	3267	-97%
1974	3207	0.001054935	38	3169	-98%
1975	3002	0.000994239	33	2969	-98%
1976	2909	0.000958705	35	2874	-98%
1977	2842	0.000894697	41	2801	-97%
1978	2595	0.000817614	38	2557	-97%
1979	2484	0.000746619	36	2448	-97%
1980	2664	0.000773406	22	2642	-98%
1981	2587	0.000747823	31	2556	-98%
1982	2516	0.000717226	25	2491	-98%
1983	2383	0.000688064	22	2361	-98%
1984	2294	0.000657541	22	2272	-98%
1985	2230	0.000624806	23	2207	-98%
1986	2231	0.0006272	26	2205	-98%
1987	2230	0.00061848	28	2202	-97%
1988	2289	0.000619479	21	2268	-98%
1989	2311	0.000601127	13	2298	-99%
1990	2498	0.000632009	17	2481	-99%
1991	2260	0.000580192	14	2246	-99%
1992	2116	0.000550859	21	2095	-98%
1993	1976	0.000524099	12	1964	-99%
1994	1964	0.00052829	16	1948	-98%
1995	1703	0.000465027	16	1687	-98%
1996	1617	0.000443354	5	1612	-99%
1997	1477	0.000407364	8	1469	-99%
1998	1494	0.000406176	8	1486	-99%
1999	1502	0.00040662	6	1496	-99%
2000	1470	0.000388899	6	1464	-99%
2001	1546	0.000412995	6	1540	-99%
2002	1450	0.000387878	11	1439	-98%
2003	1377	0.000362147	7	1370	-99%
2004	1327	0.000347298	10	1317	-98%
2005	1401	0.000364384	5	1396	-99%
2006	1465	0.000370306	5	1460	-99%
2007	1513	0.000378469	6	1507	-99%
2008	1483	0.00037729	6	1477	-99%
2009	1356	0.000354958	7	1349	-99%
2010	1301	0.000352027	7	1294	-99%
2011	1257	0.00034365	5	1252	-99%
2012	1248	0.000341229	5	1243	-99%
2013	1337	0.000366737	7	1330	-99%
2014	1195	0.000322417	9	1186	-98%
2015	1159	0.000313166	7	1152	-99%
2016	1049	0.000285933	11	1038	-98%
2017	979	0.000273755	6	973	-99%
2018	954	0.000271339	13	941	-97%
2019	853	0.000245755	8	845	-98%
2020	800	0.00023948	7	793	-98%
2021	728	0.000214879	8	720	-98%
2022	806	0.000238241	6	800	-99%
2023	717	0.000216538		717	-100%
2024	688	0.0002067	9	679	-97%

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