Joni

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Joni: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #227, and it stood at #294 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#227highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#2152
1998	#1979
1999	#1970
2000	#1995
2001	#1870
2002	#1928
2003	#1472
2004	#1836
2005	#2084
2006	#1660
2007	#1741
2008	#1584
2009	#1668
2010	#1901
2011	#1729
2012	#1150
2013	#1360
2014	#1299
2015	#1362
2016	#916
2017	#785
2018	#806
2019	#682
2020	#765
2021	#567
2022	#613
2023	#490
2024	#493

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #227 among girls in Northern Ireland, #342 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #384 among girls in Scotland, #493 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1914 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2010–2024
Highest recorded position: #227 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2010–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #294 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Joni appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 819 births with the name.

Joni across 4 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.

Joni'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#490 (2023)	#493 (2024)	29 of 29	819 (1996–2024)	81 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#294 (2025)	#294 (2025)	16 of 25	124 (2001–2025)	14 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#4333 (2007)	#3411 (2019)	#4991 (2023)	8 of 17	31 (2007–2023)	5 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#430 (2010)	#227 (2024)	#227 (2024)	6 of 15	27 (2010–2024)	7 (2024)

Joni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Joni in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	31	4 of 10	8
2000s	122	10 of 10	12
2010s	326	10 of 10	33
2020sbusiest	340	5 of 10	68

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 68 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Joni 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #227 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Joni'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	female	#493	80	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#490	81	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#613	62	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#567	69	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#765	48	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#682	57	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#806	47	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#785	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#916	40	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1362	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1360	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#227	7	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#314	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#294	14	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#342	11	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#338	12	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#299	14	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#436	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#532	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #227, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 81 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 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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Jonjo · #403, 29y
Jonn · #256, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Hayleigh · #226, 32y
Skyler · #228, 28y
Teddie · #228, 27y
Alaya · #225, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aleesha · #227, 29y
Chelsie · #227, 27y
Korben · #227, 24y
Seanna · #227, 26y

Joni was ranked #227 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Joni 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 Joni without appearing here.

Joni moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1870 and #3998.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2084 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1660 and #3548.
Pauline Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2084 and #1796 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1660 and #3548.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1914 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2152 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Joni

Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1870 and #1107.
Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1970 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1995 and #1313.
Isla Compare
In 2011 they stood at #523 and #587 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #129.
Willow Compare
In 2011 they stood at #523 and #689 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #142.

Moved the opposite way to Joni

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Joni

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Joni went from #1914 to #493 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #227 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Joni

Joni at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Joni across 4 official records

Joni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Joni appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Joni and the names beside it

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Joni at a glance

Joni across 4 official records

Joni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Joni appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Joni

Joni and the names beside it

Joni moved ahead of

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