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Johnetta vs Johnie

American parents have registered 26,074 Johnies since 1880, against 3,201 Johnettas. Johnie is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Johnetta Johnie

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

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Johnie for 133 years and Johnetta for 12 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Johnetta Johnie
Total US births 3,20126,074
Most in one year 69854
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 2,3004,900
Median age today 5869
Peak year 19521920
Best rank 1,138th girls190th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,679th
First recorded 18921880
Girls / boys 3,201 / 05,144 / 20,930

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 Johnies alive today are over 69; half the Johnettas are over 58. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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