Johnpaul
#1,654 for boys in 2025, 101 births
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 174 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,060since 1960
Johnpaul over time
Rank among boys' names. Johnpaul has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,654 | 101 |
| 2024 | #1,833 | 88 |
| 2023 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #1,782 | 92 |
| 2021 | #1,799 | 87 |
| 2020 | #1,528 | 109 |
| 2019 | #1,642 | 99 |
| 2018 | #1,418 | 123 |
| 2017 | #1,393 | 126 |
| 2016 | #1,421 | 122 |
| 2015 | #1,304 | 136 |
| 2014 | #1,137 | 167 |
| 2013 | #1,520 | 106 |
| 2012 | #1,359 | 124 |
| 2011 | #1,126 | 161 |
| 2010 | #1,399 | 119 |
| 2009 | #1,290 | 136 |
| 2008 | #1,192 | 148 |
| 2007 | #1,038 | 181 |
| 2006 | #963 | 193 |
| 2005 | #739 | 273 |
| 2004 | #1,251 | 120 |
| 2003 | #1,167 | 128 |
| 2002 | #1,357 | 97 |
| 2001 | #1,265 | 105 |
| 2000 | #1,125 | 124 |
| 1999 | #1,080 | 124 |
| 1998 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | #1,284 | 89 |
| 1996 | #1,198 | 94 |
| 1995 | #1,133 | 102 |
| 1994 | #1,207 | 91 |
| 1993 | #1,261 | 81 |
| 1992 | #1,371 | 68 |
| 1991 | #1,202 | 85 |
| 1990 | #1,156 | 88 |
| 1989 | #1,094 | 93 |
| 1988 | #970 | 99 |
| 1987 | #834 | 125 |
| 1986 | #860 | 111 |
| 1985 | #998 | 83 |
| 1984 | #866 | 103 |
| 1983 | #878 | 100 |
| 1982 | #802 | 122 |
| 1981 | #735 | 139 |
| 1980 | #796 | 121 |
| 1979 | #649 | 174 |
| 1978 | #886 | 94 |
| 1977 | #1,289 | 48 |
| 1976 | #1,123 | 57 |
| 1975 | #1,378 | 40 |
| 1974 | #1,182 | 49 |
| 1973 | #1,329 | 39 |
| 1972 | #1,348 | 39 |
| 1971 | #1,705 | 27 |
| 1970 | #1,658 | 27 |
| 1969 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #1,729 | 21 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Johnpaul! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1962, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Johnpaul
- 179 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #1,654)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#1,528 → #1,654)
- 350 spots since 2015 (#1,304 → #1,654)
- Biggest jump: 512 spots in 2005 (#1,251 → #739)
- Biggest drop: 224 spots in 2006 (#739 → #963)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1979 at #649 (174 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1978–1988
- Highest: 1 in 7,316 boys born in 2005 were named Johnpaul (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,912 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #649 in 1979, was only 1 in 9,894 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.8% of all boys named Johnpaul (1,505) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 108 | #1,652 (1967) | #2,489 |
| 1970s | 594 | #649 (1979) | #1,255 |
| 1980s | 1,096 | #735 (1981) | #883 |
| 1990s | 913 | #1,080 (1999) | #1,219 |
| 2000s | 1,505 | #739 (2005) | #1,139 |
| 2010s | 1,283 | #1,126 (2011) | #1,372 |
| 2020s | 561 | #1,528 (2020) | #1,745 |
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.
Johnpaul in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 17,466 of them was named Johnpaul, which outranked 86.9% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #880Jerimiah95
- #880Jessica95
- #880Lincoln95
- #886Johnpaul94
- #886Garrick94
- #886Nestor94
- #886Russel94
- #891Ahmed93
- #891Randell93
- #891Rasheed93
Tied with 4 names at #886; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.