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Johanna vs Johnmark

American parents have registered 54,376 Johannas since 1880, against 601 Johnmarks. Johanna is still ahead, with 309 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Johanna against Johnmark, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Johanna Johnmark

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Johanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Johanna had 309 and Johnmark had 20.

Side by side

  Johanna Johnmark
Total US births 54,376601
Most in one year 92923
Babies in 2025 30920
Estimated living today 41,000590
Median age today 3523
Peak year 19842003
Best rank 265th girls3,732nd boys
Rank in 2025 869th4,857th
First recorded 18801975
Girls / boys 54,247 / 1290 / 601

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Johannas alive today are over 35; half the Johnmarks are over 23. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Johanna and Johnmark.