Johnny
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Johnny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 84th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ,2 Pet form of John. In the United States it is occasionally also used as a girl’s name.
- DKDenmark1 in 728(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 765
- CNChina≈1 in 1.3K
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 Johnny 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #665 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 572 (measured from records)
- 1 in 657 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
,2 Pet form of John. In the United States it is occasionally also used as a girl’s name. Variant: Johnnie.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johnny 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 | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Johnny | 58 |
| US United States | #276 | 183,104 | 1 in 1.8K | 182K | Johnny | 572 |
| PH Philippines | #353 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Johnny | 134 |
| GB United Kingdom | #423 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 9 | Johnny | 250 |
| IT Italy | #555 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 4 | Johnny | 95 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 19,349 | 1 in 874 | 19K | Johnny | 57 |
| FI Finland | — | 15,287as Joni | 1 in 364 | 16K | Johnny | 35 |
| HK Hong Kong | #84 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 765 | — | Johnny | 78 |
| DK Denmark | #98 | 8,066 | 1 in 728 | 8.1K | Johnny | 147 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 7,758 | 1 in 657 | 7.8K | — | 2 |
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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Johnny is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name John.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Johnny (m.fl. former) är en engelsk smekform till John (→ Johannes). Stavningen Jonny användes i Sverige under tidigt 1900-tal även som kvinnonamn. En känd namnbärare är den amerikanske musikern Johnny Cash (1932–2003). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 24 juni.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
English and Scottish: pet form of JOHN . In America it is occasionally also used as a female name. Variant: Johnnie .
as a word
In Swedish, a male given name borrowed from English
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, a male given name of English origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johnny Weissmullerb. 1904USAmerican swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)
- Johnny Hortonb. 1925USAmerican singer (1925–1960)
- Johnny Carsonb. 1925USAmerican talk show host and comedian (1925–2005)
- Johnny Cashb. 1932USAmerican country singer (1932–2003)
- Jimi Hendrixb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican guitarist (1942–1970)
- Johnny Isaksonb. 1944USAmerican politician (1944–2021)
- Johnny Loganb. 1954IEIrish singer and songwriter
- Johnny Briceñob. 1960BZPrime Minister of Belize since 2020
- Johnny Yong Boschb. 1976USAmerican actor
- Johnny Simmonsb. 1986USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 119 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 182K | #304 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 19K | #129 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8.1K | #88 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7.8K | #85 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #304 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.2K | #683 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 861 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 682 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 36 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #6,958 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #38,191 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 9 | #212 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- Is Johnny a male or female name?
- Johnny 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.
- Where does the name Johnny come from?
- ,2 Pet form of John. In the United States it is occasionally also used as a girl’s name. Variant: Johnnie. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Johnny?
- In the etymology graph, Juan, Ivan and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of John and Jon.
- How common is the name Johnny?
- 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 Johnny compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Johnny is the 84th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Johnny mean?
- Recorded meaning: ,2 Pet form of John. In the United States it is occasionally also used as a girl’s name.
- In which country does Johnny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Johnny in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johnny.
- Where is Johnny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Johnny is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 657 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johnnyThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Johnny” — the 84th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.