Johne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zu Johannes/John; vor 1945 auch im Sudetenland verbreitet
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Norway (SSB): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2000
/ʒune/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Johne is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 440Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 460K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
460 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Patronym zu Johannes/John; vor 1945 auch im Sudetenland verbreitet.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Johne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 460 | 1 in 460K | 489 | Johne | 48 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Johne | 9 |
| US United States | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 177 | Johne | 21 |
| IN India | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 20M | 1 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 136 | — | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 640K | — | Johne | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 989K | 1 | — | — |
460 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Johne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym zu Rufname Johannes; 751 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Heinrich Albert Johneb. 1839DEGerman medical researcher (1839–1910)
- Friedrich Johneb. 1911DEGerman soldier (1911-1989)
- Renate Johneb. 1940DEGerman epigrapher and classical philologist
- Nick Johneb. 1955CACanadian actor, comedian
- Odine Johneb. 1987DEGerman actress
- Achim JohneDEGerman stage designer and gaffer
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #36,375 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname 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
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 Johne?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ʒune/; in Spanish /ʝoxne/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Johne a male or female name?
- Johne is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Norway (SSB): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Johne mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Johannes/John; vor 1945 auch im Sudetenland verbreitet.
- In which country does Johne have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 460 people named Johne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johne.
- How common is the name Johne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 460 people named Johne in 2022, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Johne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johneThe 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, “Johne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.