Johan
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #15,491 · #572 for boys in 2025, 516 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 616 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,653since 1910
Johan over time
Rank among boys' names. Johan has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #572 | 516 | |
| 2024 | — | #536 | 555 | |
| 2023 | — | #563 | 517 | |
| 2022 | — | #580 | 501 | |
| 2021 | — | #629 | 438 | |
| 2020 | — | #599 | 458 | |
| 2019 | — | #580 | 481 | |
| 2018 | — | #576 | 480 | |
| 2017 | — | #502 | 577 | |
| 2016 | — | #463 | 659 | |
| 2015 | — | #559 | 514 | |
| 2014 | — | #581 | 478 | |
| 2013 | — | #534 | 496 | |
| 2012 | — | #480 | 566 | |
| 2011 | — | #499 | 520 | |
| 2010 | — | #453 | 592 | |
| 2009 | — | #478 | 573 | |
| 2008 | — | #451 | 616 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #498 | 530 |
| 2006 | — | #531 | 476 | |
| 2005 | — | #546 | 440 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #573 | 395 |
| 2003 | — | #570 | 388 | |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #510 | 447 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #547 | 393 |
| 2000 | — | #902 | 172 | |
| 1999 | — | #837 | 180 | |
| 1998 | — | #939 | 150 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,083 | 117 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,217 | 92 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,327 | 78 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,409 | 69 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,091 | 38 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,359 | 69 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,528 | 57 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,909 | 40 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,433 | 58 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,355 | 58 | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #1,195 | 65 |
| 1986 | — | #2,096 | 27 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,794 | 33 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,382 | 47 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,470 | 42 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,382 | 47 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,577 | 38 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,852 | 30 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,598 | 36 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,718 | 31 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,063 | 23 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,999 | 24 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,213 | 17 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,046 | 17 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,445 | 12 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,987 | 16 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,975 | 17 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,671 | 9 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #3,159 | 8 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | #2,609 | 10 |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | #3,959 | 5 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,260 | 13 | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | #2,730 | 9 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
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| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Johan! It came in at #1,589, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Johan
- 36 spots since 2024 (#536 → #572)
- 27 spots since 2020 (#599 → #572)
- 13 spots since 2015 (#559 → #572)
- Biggest jump: 355 spots in 2001 (#902 → #547)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2018 (#502 → #576)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 2008 at #451 (616 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,880 boys born in 2016 were named Johan (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,310 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #451 in 2008, was only 1 in 3,312 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.6% of all boys named Johan (5,363) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 52 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,455 |
| 1920s | 71 | #2,502 (1921) | #3,328 |
| 1930s | 27 | #2,396 (1935) | #2,699 |
| 1940s | 37 | #2,656 (1941) | #2,917 |
| 1950s | 46 | #2,628 (1956) | #2,749 |
| 1960s | 110 | #1,975 (1964) | #2,487 |
| 1970s | 197 | #1,598 (1979) | #2,327 |
| 1980s | 445 | #1,195 (1987) | #1,554 |
| 1990s | 890 | #837 (1999) | #1,370 |
| 2000s | 4,430 | #451 (2008) | #561 |
| 2010s | 5,363 | #453 (2010) | #523 |
| 2020s | 2,985 | #536 (2024) | #580 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Johan in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 257,232 of them was named Johan, which outranked 32.9% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,020Zorah8
- #11,020Zykiria8
- #11,020Zyonna8
- #12,056Johan7
- #12,056Aaisha7
- #12,056Aajaylah7
- #12,056Aaliayah7
- #13,521Aaleah6
- #13,521Aalyssa6
- #13,521Aamira6
Tied with 1,464 names at #12,056; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 4,944 of them was named Johan, which outranked 95.6% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.