Jonny

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jonny: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jonny: Recorded since 1945, it reached #55 in 1963, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
83times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#55highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1765
1998	#2901
1999	#2425
2000	#2142
2001	#1467
2002	#1253
2003	#615
2004	#391
2005	#512
2006	#1084
2007	#820
2008	#640
2009	#696
2010	#811
2011	#781
2012	#1119
2013	#1147
2014	#866
2015	#1074
2016	#946
2017	#1042
2018	#1455
2019	#1056
2020	#1492
2021	#1516
2022	#1609
2023	#1407
2024	#2443

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 54 of the 60 years from 1945 to 2004.

In 2007: #255 among boys in Northern Ireland, #820 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #181 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2004
Highest recorded position: #55 among boys in Norway, in 1963 (recorded 1945–2004).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jonny appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 54 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 2,789 births with the name.

Jonny across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jonny's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#181 (1945)	#55 (1963)	#502 (2004)	54 of 60	2,789 (1945–2004)	159 (1963)
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#391 (2004)	#2443 (2024)	28 of 29	700 (1996–2024)	72 (2004)

Jonny by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jonny in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	181	5 of 10	36
1950s	603	10 of 10	60
1960sbusiest	1,215	10 of 10	122
1970s	522	10 of 10	52
1980s	199	10 of 10	20
1990s	64	8 of 10	8
2000s	5	1 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 122 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1966 and 1967, when recorded births fell by 45, from 151 to 106.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Jonny appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #55 in Norway in 1963.

Jonny's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1407	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1056	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#946	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1074	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#866	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1147	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1119	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#811	36	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#696	43	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#640	48	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1084	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#512	53	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#391	72	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#615	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#255	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#502	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#515	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#473	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#580	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#362	11	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#394	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#461	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#394	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#375	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#330	14	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#376	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#264	19	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#318	15	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#260	21	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#271	19	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#306	16	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#216	27	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#194	32	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#229	24	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#208	29	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#213	29	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#228	23	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#187	35	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#148	49	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#156	48	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#132	60	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#116	73	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#102	87	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#91	89	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#81	114	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#82	108	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#83	106	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#60	151	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#60	141	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#62	140	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#55	159	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#63	128	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#82	91	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#92	77	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#86	83	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#97	72	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#98	71	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#96	70	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#100	64	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#107	56	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#113	48	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#108	55	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#121	42	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#127	42	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#122	42	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#134	39	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#142	36	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#133	42	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#181	22	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2024, ranked in 79 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #55, first reached in 1963.

It held a top-100 place in 16 years, 16 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 159 births, registered in Norway in 1963.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 62 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Jonnie · #770, 19y
Jonty · #586, 29y
Jood · #1782, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ina · #56, 76y
Monika · #50, 80y
Ola · #48, 81y
Edvin · #45, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Arve · #55, 64y
Elsa · #55, 80y
Karina · #55, 71y
Ståle · #55, 63y

Jonny was ranked #55 in Norway · Boys in 1963. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jonny and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jonny without appearing here.

Jonny moved ahead of

Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1084 and #4052.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #3225.
Garry Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1253 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #615 and #1771.

Moved ahead of Jonny

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1407 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #1132.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1407 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #1460.
Arlo Compare
In 2005 they stood at #512 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1084 and #582.
Braxton Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1407 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #2088.

Moved the opposite way to Jonny

Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 while Andreas went from #140 to #3.
Christian Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 while Christian went from #161 to #43.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 while Daniel went from #280 to #5.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 while David went from #167 to #42.

Moved the same way as Jonny

Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 and Alfred from #127 to #192.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 and Arild from #32 to #312.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 and Arne from #6 to #169.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2004 in Norway · Boys, Jonny went from #181 to #502 and Arthur from #153 to #239.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #55 in Norway in 1963. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jonny

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Jonny across 2 official records

Jonny by decade in Norway · Boys

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