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Ioane

#6,949 in 2025Boys' name

God is gracious, through Joan

Ioane has been given to 208 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,949 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Ioane, 2025

1 in 276,000

Ioane over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ioane: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Joan

Hebrew and the Bible

What Ioane means

Ioane belongs to the name family reached through Ioane → Joan. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ioane is used in English and Hawaiian. Its origins include Hebrew and the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Ioane is pronounced /i.oˈa.ne/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 208 boys were recorded with the name Ioane between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,678 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,316 in 2020 to #6,949 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,811 in 2015 to #6,949 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ioane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,949
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ioane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ioane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ioanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ioane was born before 2020 — so the typical Ioane is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
208
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Ioane rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−655
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,367
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,862
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2021 (30)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,678
2021

Spellings of Ioane

Ioane is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 27.7% against Ioane's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ioane is used

Across 1910–2025, Ioane was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 625,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ioane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ioane around the world

Where Ioane ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    1994–2025
    #4,714
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ioane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,949
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,367
Best rank ever
#3,678
2021
Peak year
2021
30 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
208
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Ioane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ioane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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