A diminutive of John, Johnny also goes back to the Hebrew name Yochanan meaning ‘Yahweh is gracious’.
Johnny is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Johnny isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Johnny ranks 324. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Johnny. In the entire USA, approximately 312,476 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Johnny. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
Johnny is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Johnny. This means that several boys named Johnny have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Johnny has reached its best rank of #44 multiple times, most recently in 1945. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Johnny one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Johnny was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Johnny will be Johnny. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Johnny in 2022 – in fact 800 to be precise, confirming Johnny as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #383 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 1881, when only 13 baby boys were named Johnny.
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 six letters, the name Johnny is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Johnny 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 Johnny, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Hat
Nut
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Johnny
Johnny
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
H
N
N
Y
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
N
N
Y
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. Johnny sounds like this:
