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Joana

#2,596 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Iohanna

Joana has been given to 7,944 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #2,596 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 357 recorded.

Babies named Joana, 2025

1 in 49,500

Joana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Iohanna

Hebrew

What Joana means

Joana is a form of Iohanna.

Origin, language, and formation

Joana is used in Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Lithuanian and Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iohanna, Joanna, Ivana and Giovana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Joana is pronounced /ɟoana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,944 girls were recorded with the name Joana between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 357 in 2001; its best national rank was #698 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,359 in 2020 to #2,596 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,364 in 2015 to #2,596 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 Joana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,596
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joana 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joana was born before 2000 — so the typical Joana is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,687
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (2,665).

Is Joana 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
±0
No change
Rank vs 5 years ago
−237
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−232
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.8%
Peak was 2001 (357)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#698
2001

Spellings of Joana

Joana is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 18.3% against Joana's 0.18%.

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 Joana is used

Across 2016–2025, Joana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 19,280 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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.

Joana around the world

Where Joana 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • France
    1952–2025
    #667
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Joana

People whose public names include Joana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Joana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Joana. Linked forms have their own page here.

JoanOanaIoanaJuanaHannieJoannaJoanneJohanaJohannaHanneloreSiwanIohannaJóhannaSiobhánHannelis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Joana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,596
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 237
Best rank ever
#698
2001
Peak year
2001
357 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,944
Count in 2025
67

Names similar to Joana

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

JoanieIvanaJeanaElanaGianaIlanaIyanaAyanaLeanaLuanaChanaAryanaAvianaJuanaMilanaJohanaAlianaTanaLianaAitanaAiyanaBryanaTyanaKeana

Names with a curve like Joana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Joana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ErynVanesaFlorDanaeElyssaFabiolaAlysaAnastaciaAracelyShakiraYajairaAzucena

Sibling names for Joana

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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