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Ioanna

#5,995 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Joanna

Ioanna has been given to 592 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,995 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Ioanna, 2025

1 in 166,000

Ioanna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ioanna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ioanna means

Ioanna is a form of Joanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ioanna → Joanna. The family’s meaning is “God is gracious”, recorded in English with the source elements Yôḥānāh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 592 girls were recorded with the name Ioanna between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,333 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,111 in 2020 to #5,995 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,762 in 2015 to #5,995 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 Ioanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,995
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ioanna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ioanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ioannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ioanna was born before 2004 — so the typical Ioanna is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
592
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Ioanna 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
+2,148
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8,116
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,767
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.0%
Peak was 2016 (23)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,333
1978

Spellings of Ioanna

Ioanna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 30.2% against Ioanna'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 Ioanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Ioanna was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 371,935 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ioanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ioanna around the world

Where Ioanna 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
    1997–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2023
    #5,924
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ioanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,995
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,116
Best rank ever
#4,333
1978
Peak year
2016
23 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
592
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Ioanna

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

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Sibling names for Ioanna

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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