Jonny

Where Jonny comes from

The dictionaries list Jonny as a given name — a male given name, variant of Johnny — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,544 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1919
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1967
    Peak, #1,087
    46 babies named Jonny — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,966.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name, variant of Johnny
  • A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Jonny hasn't yet.

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.