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Jonny

#3,406 in 2025Boys' name

God has given, through Jonathan

Jonny has been given to 3,532 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #3,406 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Jonny, 2025

1 in 97,500

Jonny over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jonny: meaning, origin, and history

God has given, through Jonathan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jonny means

Jonny belongs to the name family reached through Jonny → Jonathan. Its meaning is “God has given”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonny is used in English, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jonathan and Johnny.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,401 boys were recorded with the name Jonny between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,095 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,300 in 2020 to #3,406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,788 in 2015 to #3,406 in 2025.

In the United States, 131 girls were recorded with the name Jonny between 1917 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1946; its best national rank was #2,801 in 1946.

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 Jonny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,406
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonny 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonnys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonny was born before 1988 — so the typical Jonny is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,878
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (580).

Is Jonny 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
+435
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−618
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.0%
Peak was 2008 (79)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,095
1967

Spellings of Jonny

Jonny is not the most common spelling — John is, with 77.3% against Jonny'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.

Where Jonny is used

Across 1910–2025, Jonny was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 109,893 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

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

Jonny around the world

Where Jonny 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
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2019
    #609
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2007
    #255
    in 2007
  • France
    1935–2014
    #6,297
    in 2014
  • Norway
    1880–2004
    #473
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1996–2018
    #2,065
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1955–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Jonny

People whose public names include Jonny, 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.

Jonny in other languages

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

JonyJohnnyJonnie

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

Jonny by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 106
Best rank ever
#1,095
1967
Peak year
2008
79 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,401
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,801
1946
Peak year
1946
13 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jonny

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

JonesJonteMannySunnyJonatanLonnyJonnieJontaeJonasLennyVinnyJonielJoniJonaelJonanTonnyDonnyJhonnyJonaRonnyDennyRennyJovannySonny

Names with a curve like Jonny

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

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Sibling names for Jonny

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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