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Johnpaul

#1,658 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Johnpaul has been given to 6,060 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #1,658 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 273 recorded.

Babies named Johnpaul, 2025

1 in 32,800

Johnpaul over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johnpaul: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Johnpaul means

Johnpaul is a given name.

The naming story behind Johnpaul

Wikidata records Johnpaul as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q117814766, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,060 boys were recorded with the name Johnpaul between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 273 in 2005; its best national rank was #649 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,530 in 2020 to #1,658 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,305 in 2015 to #1,658 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Johnpaul?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,800
101 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,658
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,753 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johnpaul 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,753 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johnpaul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johnpauls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johnpaul was born before 2002 — so the typical Johnpaul is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,060
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (1,505).

Is Johnpaul 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
+183
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−128
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−353
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.0%
Peak was 2005 (273)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#649
1979

Spellings of Johnpaul

Johnpaul is the most-used spelling, taking 64.5% of the 9,398 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Johnpaul is used

Across 2016–2025, Johnpaul was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 21,587 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 9,091
  2. 2Virginia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Ohio1 in 16,667
  6. 6California1 in 20,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Johnpaul around the world

Where Johnpaul 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
    1996–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2018
    #595
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2019
    #418
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–1999
    #3,922
    in 1999
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #1,987
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1964–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Johnpaul in other languages

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

GianpaoloJón PállJean-PaulJohn Paul

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

Johnpaul by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,658
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 128
Best rank ever
#649
1979
Peak year
2005
273 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,060
Count in 2025
101

Names similar to Johnpaul

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

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Names with a curve like Johnpaul

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

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Sibling names for Johnpaul

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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