Joni

#1,796 for girls in 2025, 112 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 97.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1956 · 1,576 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
28,815
since 1930

Joni over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Joni has never cracked the top 200 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201930peak #204, 1956girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,796112#6,80312
2024#1,870107#5,24118
2023#2,26981#7,28911
2022#2,20885#9,8237
2021#2,28680#8,1669
2020#2,21681#6,29613
2019#2,63266#8,8898
2018#2,74462#6,34513
2017#2,87358#5,52616
2016#2,76162#4,94319
2015#3,38947#6,32413
2014#3,22650#6,63212
2013#4,54331#5,92314
2012#3,41947#6,00114
2011#4,24434#6,57812
2010#4,60831#9,6937
2009#3,67743#5,80015
2008#3,71043#5,76715
2007#4,13137#4,99618
2006#3,56444#7,9989
2005#3,94236#6,22612
2004#4,17233#4,60218
2003#2,92352#7,2459
2002#3,01448#5,39513
2001#2,60058#5,39013
2000#2,25869#5,92011
1999#2,81248#6,04210
1998#2,46156#5,46611
1997#2,36056#5,28811
1996#2,10665#5,53510
1995#1,74683#4,50813
1994#1,66390#3,91116
1993#1,518103#5,36010
1992#1,381119#4,87211
1991#1,290129#4,00514
1990#1,052170#5,8238
1989#978177—
1988#805229#5,7517
1987#741244—
1986#622300#5,9266
1985#614308#4,05210
1984#519374#5,5616
1983#442465#3,88410
1982#392588#5,0037
1981#327724#4,9617
1980#319757#3,43012
1979#352660#4,8427
1978#333656—
1977#369580#5,8455
1976#359586#3,26411
1975#486380#2,90213
1974#595266#4,6346
1973#648231#3,4459
1972#674221#3,9637
1971#597289#4,3756
1970#544344#4,7245
1969#536337#3,9356
1968#481399#2,57611
1967#447446#2,9858
1966#377588#3,2497
1965#339717#2,7809
1964#303935#3,2827
1963#2731,089—
1962#2681,110#4,0335
1961#2471,268—
1960#2301,385#3,6656
1959#2321,359#3,6196
1958#2171,422#3,5596
1957#2141,535—
1956#2041,576#2,9698
1955#2121,450—
1954#281917#3,8275
1953#297757#2,7099
1952#1,04681#3,7345
1951#1,07874#3,7145
1950#1,33347—
1949#1,18359—
1948#1,26752—
1947#1,10665—
1946#1,29045—
1945#1,33236—
1944#1,54528—
1943#1,62527—
1942#1,27839#3,5605
1941#1,13343—
1940#1,13241—
1939#1,73120—
1938#1,70321—
1937#1,99916—
1936#2,8579—
1935#3,1568—
1934#3,4497—
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1932#4,4115—
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1930#3,6587—
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First appearance
1930

The first year at least five girls were named Joni! It came in at #3,658, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1931–1933, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Joni is popular in 1930

No state had 5 or more girls named Joni in 1930, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Joni
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 74 spots since 2024 (#1,870 → #1,796)
  • 420 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #1,796)
  • 1,593 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #1,796)
  • Biggest jump: 749 spots in 1953 (#1,046 → #297)
  • Biggest drop: 173 spots in 1989 (#805 → #978)
Rise & fade · girls
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1930
  • Peaked 1956 at #204 (1,576 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 37 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1953–1989
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,274
  • Highest: 1 in 1,274 girls born in 1956 were named Joni (0.08%)
  • Latest: 1 in 14,351 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 32.0% of all girls named Joni (9,218) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s93#1,703 (1938)#2,871
1940s435#1,106 (1947)#1,289
1950s9,218#204 (1956)#511
1960s8,274#230 (1960)#350
1970s4,213#333 (1978)#496
1980s4,166#319 (1980)#576
1990s919#1,052 (1990)#1,839
2000s463#2,258 (2000)#3,399
2010s488#2,632 (2019)#3,444
2020s546#1,796 (2025)#2,108

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Joni in 1930

girls
#3,658
7 births · 1 in 160,847 girls

Top girls' names in 1930

  1. #1Mary64,153
  2. #2Betty38,240
  3. #3Dorothy30,411
  4. #4Helen19,913
  5. #5Margaret18,350
  6. #6Barbara18,279
  7. #7Patricia15,751
  8. #8Joan15,478
  9. #9Doris15,464
  10. #10Ruth14,942
  11. #3,658Joni7
More about 1930

girls

1,125,927 girls got a published name in 1930; 1 in 160,847 of them was named Joni, which outranked 30.3% of the 5,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Joni
  1. #3,345Zelphia8
  2. #3,345Zenna8
  3. #3,345Zonia8
  4. #3,658Joni7
  5. #3,658Adair7
  6. #3,658Adalee7
  7. #3,658Adolph7
  8. #4,047Aaron6
  9. #4,047Adda6
  10. #4,047Adelma6

Tied with 388 names at #3,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1929
Risers
  1. ↑ 701Claudette#1,642 → #941
  2. ↑ 583Ardeth#1,212 → #629
  3. ↑ 445Julianne#1,339 → #894
  4. ↑ 376Sonja#1,223 → #847
  5. ↑ 374Armida#1,174 → #800
Fallers
  1. ↓ 348Ingrid#941 → #1,289
  2. ↓ 315Coralie#895 → #1,210
  3. ↓ 229Elenor#981 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 229Mammie#981 → #1,210
  5. ↓ 226Sibyl#902 → #1,128

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1930 →