Johnjames
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Johnjames has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Johnjames, 1996
1 in 729,000
Johnjames over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Johnjames?
Johnjames had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Johnjames sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johnjames. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Johnjamess were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Johnjames was born before 1987 — so the typical Johnjames is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 67.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 67.6% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Johnjames rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (6)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.3% average annual change
Johnjames around the world
Where Johnjames ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–2025#3,256in 2025
- Scotland1998–2021#720in 2021
- Northern Ireland2011–2023#395in 2023
- Ireland2017–2017#710in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Johnjames by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Johnjames
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Johnjames
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.