Johany

Where Johany comes from

Johany hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on 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. 1997
    First appearance
    #13,724 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2004
    Peak, #10,690
    9 babies named Johany — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2012
    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.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Johany 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.