Johannes is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Johannes is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Johannes. In the SmartGenius ranking, Johannes is #2,284 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Johannes.
While Johannes is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1966, the name Johannes reached its highest popularity with #1,450 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Johannes. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Johannes.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Johannes was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 46 babies were born with the name Johannes. This puts the name in rank 2,462 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 3,509,261 newborns was named Johannes that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Johannes has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The first name Johannes is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 376 Americans in total bear this name. And these 376 men are located in only five states: California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Johannes and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Johannes in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 57,709 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Johannes present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With eight letters, the name Johannes is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Johannes and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Johannes, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Hat
Apple
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Johannes
Johannes
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
H
A
N
N
E
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
H
A
N
N
E
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Johannes sounds like this:
