# Johann (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/johann/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,519 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,869 / 650 (12% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 280, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 6 | 7,823 |
| 1974 | 6 | 8,109 |
| 1975 | 6 | 8,419 |
| 1978 | 6 | 8,991 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,871 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,527 |
| 1981 | 8 | 7,695 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,962 |
| 1986 | 7 | 8,944 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,429 |
| 1990 | 7 | 10,697 |
| 1991 | 5 | 14,117 |
| 1994 | 7 | 11,061 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,925 |
| 2004 | 5 | 17,315 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 210 | 947 |
| 2012 | 215 | 946 |
| 2013 | 164 | 1,113 |
| 2014 | 130 | 1,338 |
| 2015 | 138 | 1,294 |
| 2016 | 168 | 1,146 |
| 2017 | 106 | 1,547 |
| 2018 | 126 | 1,397 |
| 2019 | 91 | 1,730 |
| 2020 | 92 | 1,700 |
| 2021 | 76 | 1,972 |
| 2022 | 87 | 1,844 |
| 2023 | 77 | 1,992 |
| 2024 | 91 | 1,799 |
| 2025 | 85 | 1,856 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Johann

- Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (1685–1750)
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (1805–1859)
- Johann Christian Bach, German composer (1735–1782)
- Johannes Hevelius, astronomer setting up the cartography of the Moon
- Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (1812-1910)
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)
- Johann Pachelbel, German composer, organist and teacher
- Johann Heinrich Lambert, German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
- Johann Bayer, German lawyer and uranographer
- Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomist (1848–1925)
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (1748–1804)
- Johann Martin Schleyer, German Catholic priest (1831–1912)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.