Johnny
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Johnny is an English language personal name. It is often a nickname, but from the 16th century it has sometimes been a given name in its own right for males and, less commonly, females.
Key facts
- Given name2.name
- Johnny
- Given name2.gender
- Primarily male
- Given name2.language
- English
- Given name2.languageorigin
- English, Hebrew
- Given name2.origin
- Diminutive form of John
- Given name2.related names
- John, Johnathan, Johnathon, Johnson, Jonny
- Given name2.seealso
- Seonaidh
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- People
- Johnny
- Johnnie
- Fictional characters
- See also
- References
Johnny is an English language personal name. It is often a nickname, but from the 16th century it has sometimes been a given name in its own right for males and, less commonly, females.
Variant forms of Johnny include Johnnie, Johnney, Johhny, Johnni and Johni. The masculine Johnny can be rendered into Scottish Gaelic as .
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