as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, meaning originally ‘son of John’ and in modern times sometimes bestowed with precisely this meaning.
| 1,509th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,942
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Johnson per capita
- 1919
- marked the height of its popularity
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11%
30-54
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36%
13-29
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42%
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