Joni
About 29,502 American babies have been named Joni since 1930, most of them around 1956. In 2025 it ranked 1,796th. About 26,000 Jonis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joni boys named Joni
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29,502
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 204th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,796th
- First recorded
- 1930
- Girls / boys
- 28,815 / 687
How old the living Jonis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29,502 babies given the name since 1930, about 26,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 9,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Commonly used as a diminutive of Joan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jonis
- Joni Mitchell (born 1943)Canadian musician
- Joni Ernst (born 1970)American politician
- Joni Kauko (born 1990)Finnish association football player
- Joni Huntley (born 1956)American high jumper
- Joni Mäki (born 1995)Finnish cross-country skier
- Joni Pitkänen (born 1983)ice hockey player
- Joni James (1930–2022)American singer
- Joni Eareckson Tada (born 1949)American artist
People named Joni with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Joni is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Joni is most concentrated in Iowa (3.2×), Nebraska (2.9×), South Dakota (2.5×), Hawaii (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular girls’ names the year Joni peaked:
Joni elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Joni | 930 | 381st |
| Belgium girls | Joni | 395 | 221st |
| Scotland girls | Joni | 203 | 256th |
| Belgium boys | Joni | 129 | 391st |
| Ireland girls | Joni | 124 | 299th |
| Switzerland boys | Joni | 60 | 869th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Joni | 32 | 227th |
| England and Wales boys | Joni | 31 | 3,411th |
| France boys | Joni | 10 | 5,190th |
| Switzerland girls | Joni | 7 | 1,559th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Joni: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Joni | 50 | 0.004% | 723rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Joni | 7 | 0.001% | 1,228th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Joni | 9 | 0.002% | 801st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Joni | 1 | 0.002% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Joni is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Joni: rank by region
In 2018, Joni was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Joni | 859 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Joni by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Joni among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Joni | 14,442 | 15,272 |
| Finland girls | Joni | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Joni against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.