Given name & surname

Johne

Johne is a surname from German.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Johne comes from German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Johne through the years

Babies since 1880
68
63 boys · 5 girls
Most popular year
1962
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
024619401960198020002025Highest share 1926Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Johne in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1925–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 245 as a first name in 2020; 110 as a surname in 2000.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Johne’s family of names

Johne may belong to the same name family as JOHNNE. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Johne’s family in the name graph

JohneJohnJohnne

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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German

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Germanic languages

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Diedrick is a surname from German.

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Sibling ideas

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