Johnlee

#11,284 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Johnlee has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #11,284 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Johnlee, 2025

1 in 553,000

Johnlee over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Johnlee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,284
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johnlee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johnlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johnlees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johnlee was born before 2006 — so the typical Johnlee is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
67
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1980s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Johnlee 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
+307
Places climbed
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
66.7%
Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,942
1984

Spellings of Johnlee

Johnlee is not the most common spelling — Johnnie is, with 80.8% against Johnlee's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Johnlee around the world

Where Johnlee 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 & Wales
    2007–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • France
    2002–2002
    #4,597
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Johnlee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,284
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,942
1984
Peak year
2006
9 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
6

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Sibling names for Johnlee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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