Johnston
#10,152 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Johnston has been given to 512 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #10,152 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Johnston, 2025
1 in 474,000
Johnston 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Johnston?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,152
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Johnston sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johnston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Johnstons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Johnston was born before 1995 — so the typical Johnston is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 20.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 429
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (105).
Is Johnston 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
- −1,516
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,092
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,402
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.70×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.9%
- Peak was 2007 (18)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.3% average annual change
Spellings of Johnston
Johnston is not the most common spelling — Johnathon is, with 75.7% against Johnston's 1.5%.
Johnston around the world
Where Johnston 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.
- Scotland1974–1975#288in 1975
- Canada1991–2001#2,057in 2001
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Johnston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Johnston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Johnston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.