Jonnie

Where Jonnie comes from

Jonnie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Peak, #685
    119 babies named Jonnie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,417.
  4. 1965
    Jonnie Boer born
    Dutch chef
  5. 1973
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  6. 1993
    Jonnie Peacock born
    British para athletics competitor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jonnie Peacock · British para athletics competitor, born 1993
  • Jonnie Boer · Dutch chef, 1965–2025
  • Jonnie Fedel · Swedish footballer, born 1966
  • Jonnie Irwin · English television presenter, 1973–2024
  • Jonnie Newman · Canadian artistic swimmer, born 2006

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.