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Jonnie

#6,967 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of Johan

Jonnie has been given to 9,061 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #6,967 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1947, with 136 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% girls, 35% boys all-time.

Babies named Jonnie, 2025

1 in 207,000

Jonnie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jonnie over time

In 2025, Jonnie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jonnie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Johan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jonnie means

Jonnie is a diminutive of Johan.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonnie is used in Afrikaans.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,880 girls were recorded with the name Jonnie between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 136 in 1947; its best national rank was #687 in 1944.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,859 in 2020 to #6,967 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,127 in 2015 to #6,967 in 2025.

In the United States, 3,181 boys were recorded with the name Jonnie between 1891 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1919; its best national rank was #540 in 1903.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jonnie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,967
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonnie 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonnie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonnies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonnie was born before 1947 — so the typical Jonnie is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,658
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1940s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (1,062).

Is Jonnie 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
+431
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,892
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−840
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.8%
Peak was 1947 (136)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#687
1944

Spellings of Jonnie

Jonnie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 17.2% against Jonnie's 0.28%.

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 Jonnie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Jonnie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 48,133 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 9,091
  2. 2Alabama1 in 12,500
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Georgia1 in 12,500
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 20,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

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. Jonnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Jonnie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Jonnie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 71,805 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 25,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Jonnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jonnie around the world

Where Jonnie 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
    1999–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1960–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jonnie

People whose public names include Jonnie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jonnie in other languages

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

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

Jonnie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,967
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,892
Best rank ever
#687
1944
Peak year
1947
136 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,880
Count in 2025
16

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#540
1903
Peak year
1919
73 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
3,181
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jonnie

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

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Names with a curve like Jonnie

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

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Sibling names for Jonnie

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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