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Joane

Girls' name

God is gracious, through Joan

Joane has been given to 1,195 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1935, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Joane, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joane: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Joan

Hebrew

What Joane means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Joane is used in English, Basque and Yola. Its origins include Hebrew.

Joane is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joan and Jone.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Joane is pronounced /ɟoane/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,195 girls were recorded with the name Joane between 1921 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1935; its best national rank was #1,233 in 1935.

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 Joane?

Joane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joane 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joane was born before 1950 — so the typical Joane is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
617
People you could plausibly meet
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1930s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Joane 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1935 (34)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,233
1935

Spellings of Joane

Joane is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 12.3% against Joane's 0.03%.

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 Joane is used

Across 1910–2025, Joane was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 536,648 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Joane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joane around the world

Where Joane 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.

  • France
    1946–2025
    #2,280
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1956–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,233
1935
Peak year
1935
34 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
1,195
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joane

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

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Sibling names for Joane

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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