Johnnie

Where Johnnie comes from

From John + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Johnnie
  • Vowel-ended
Johnnie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #350 among boys, with 24 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #74
    502 babies named Johnnie, its best rank.
  3. 1918
    Johnnie Parsons born
    American racing driver
  4. 1955
    Johnnie To born
    Hong Kong filmmaker
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #713.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name John.
Namesakes
  • Johnnie To · Hong Kong filmmaker, born 1955
  • Johnnie Parsons · American racing driver, 1918–1984
  • Johnnie Ray · American singer and pianist, 1927–1990
  • Johnnie Johnson · American musician, 1924–2005
  • Johnnie Taylor · American male singer and songwriter, 1934–2000

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.