Joeanna

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Joeanna has been given to 485 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1986, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Joeanna, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Joeanna?

Joeanna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joeanna 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joeanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joeannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joeanna was born before 1982 — so the typical Joeanna is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
16.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
317
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Joeanna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (21)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,147
1890

Spellings of Joeanna

Joeanna is not the most common spelling — Joanne is, with 17.1% against Joeanna's 0.04%.

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.

Joeanna around the world

Where Joeanna 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.

  • South Australia
    1956–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joeanna 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
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Best rank ever
#1,147
1890
Peak year
1986
21 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
485
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joeanna

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

Sibling names for Joeanna

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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