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Johnna

#7,656 in 2025Girls' name

Yahweh is gracious, through John

Johnna has been given to 10,029 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #7,656 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 617 recorded.

Babies named Johnna, 2025

1 in 237,000

Johnna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johnna: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious, through John

Hebrew

What Johnna means

Johnna belongs to the name family reached through Johnna → John. Its meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A rare feminine form of John recorded since the 18th century.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Johnna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Johnna is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,029 girls were recorded with the name Johnna between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 617 in 1963; its best national rank was #387 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,458 in 2020 to #7,656 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,804 in 2015 to #7,656 in 2025.

How common is Johnna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,656
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johnna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johnna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johnnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johnna was born before 1976 — so the typical Johnna is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,604
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Choose a decade

1960s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (2,907).

Is Johnna 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
−260
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,198
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,852
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.3%
Peak was 1963 (617)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#387
1963

Spellings of Johnna

Johnna is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 49.1% against Johnna's 0.59%.

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.

Where Johnna is used

Across 1910–2025, Johnna was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 24,766 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 6,667
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 7,143
  3. 3Missouri1 in 7,692
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 8,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 16,667
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Johnna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Johnna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Johnna. Linked forms have their own page here.

Jonna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Johnna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,656
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,198
Best rank ever
#387
1963
Peak year
1963
617 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,029
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Johnna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Johnna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Johnna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Johnna

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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