Jonny
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., Koseform von nieder deutsche Jon oder englische Schreibvariante ['d3om] von
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɑɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jonny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.2K
- USUnited States1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joenny in VE Venezuela.
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(measured from records)
männl. Vom., Koseform von nieder deutsche Jon oder englische Schreibvariante ['d3om] von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jonny 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Jonny | 25 |
| SE Sweden | #282 | 9,844 | 1 in 1K | 9.8K | Jonny | 92 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Joenny | 11 |
| US United States | — | 5,640 | 1 in 59K | 5.4K | Jonny | 375 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,588 | 1 in 3K | 5.6K | — | 23 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Jonny | 26 |
| NO Norway | #294 | 2,457 | 1 in 2.2K | 8.7K | Jonny | 80 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Jonny Coyneb. 1953GBEnglish actor
- Jonathan Phillipsb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor
- Jonny Moseleyb. 1975USAmerican freestyle skier
- Jonny Wilkinsonb. 1979GBEnglish rugby union footballer
- Jonny Evansb. 1988GBNorthern Irish association football player (born 1988)
- Jonny Westonb. 1988USAmerican actor
- Jonny Flynnb. 1989USAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Jonny Bairstowb. 1989GBEnglish cricketer (born 1989)
- Jonathan Williamsb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameWelsh association footballer
- Jonny Marsactor and producer
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 70 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9.8K | #402 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8.7K | #453 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 6K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.6K | #274 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.4K | #3,623 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 2.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 275 | #3,623 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #14,721 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 7 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What are other forms of the name Jonny?
- In the etymology graph, Jon, Jonatan and Yoni are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jonathan and Johnathon.
- How do you pronounce Jonny?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɑɲi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Jonny?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 9,844 people named Jonny, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jonny compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Jonny is the 282nd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
- Is Jonny a male or female name?
- Jonny 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.
- What does the name Jonny mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., Koseform von nieder deutsche Jon oder englische Schreibvariante ['d3om] von
- In which country does Jonny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Jonny in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jonny.
- Where is Jonny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jonny is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Jonny?
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/jonnyThe 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, “Jonny” — the 282nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.