Johny
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Johny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8Kas Johnny(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 37Kas জনি
- BEBelgium≈1 in 9.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Johny itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
183,104 named Johnny, 2020
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Joni in FI Finland, Johnny in EC Ecuador and Jony in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johny counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 183,104as Johnny | 1 in 1.8K | 182K | Johny | 286 |
| FI Finland | — | 23,898as Jani | 1 in 233 | 26K | Joni | 12 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 19,349as Johnny | 1 in 874 | 19K | Johnny | 17 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,632as Johnny | 1 in 877 | 12K | Johny | 34 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,553as Johnny | 1 in 22K | 9.6K | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8,066as Johnny | 1 in 728 | 8.1K | Johny | 43 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 7,758as Johnny | 1 in 657 | 7.8K | — | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | #279 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Jony | 66 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 24 | Johny | 46 |
183,104 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling johnny. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johny Bakshib. 1932INIndian film director
- Johny Hoffmannb. 1944LULuxembourgian association football player (1944-2018)
- Johnny Gyllingb. 1956SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Johny Sroujib. 1964ILArab Israeli computer scientist
- Johny Asadomab. 1966IDIndonesian boxer
- Johny Chowb. 1972USAmerican musician
- Johnny Jansenb. 1975NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer and manager (1975-)
- Johny Hendricksb. 1983USAmerican sport wrestler and mixed martial artist
- Johny Barewoodpornographic actor
- Johny AntonyINIndian film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #5,038 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.8K | #4,044 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.4K | #5,329 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.8K | #502 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 732 | #2,117 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 433 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 192 | #918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 76 | #5,038 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 74 | #3,794 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 57 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 52 | #3,211 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Johny?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Johny a male or female name?
- Johny is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Johny have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 183 thousand people named Johnny, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Johny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 183,104 people named Johnny in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Johny compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Johny is the 279th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Johny?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johnyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Johny” — the 279th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.