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Johana

#2,287 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Iohanna

Johana has been given to 6,978 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,287 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 329 recorded.

Babies named Johana, 2025

1 in 41,400

Johana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Iohanna

Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek and Latin

What Johana means

Johana is a form of Iohanna.

Origin, language, and formation

Johana is used in Czech and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iohanna, Joan and Johanna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Johana is pronounced [ˈjoɦana].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,967 girls were recorded with the name Johana between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 329 in 2005; its best national rank was #749 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,041 in 2020 to #2,287 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,915 in 2015 to #2,287 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Johana between 1993 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1993; its best national rank was #8,101 in 1993.

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 Johana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,287
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johana 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 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johanas were born

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

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,925
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (2,679).

Is Johana 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
−548
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−246
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−372
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.3%
Peak was 2005 (329)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#749
2001

Spellings of Johana

Johana is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 45.7% against Johana's 0.66%.

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 Johana is used

Across 2016–2025, Johana was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 13,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 11,111
  4. 4Florida1 in 12,500
  5. 5Maryland1 in 12,500
  6. 6Illinois1 in 16,667
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 20,000

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.

Johana around the world

Where Johana 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
    1999–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2014–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • France
    1954–2025
    #2,304
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,616
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1966–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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 Johana

People whose public names include Johana, 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.

Johana in other languages

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

JoanJoanaHannieJoannaJoanneJohannaHanneloreSiwanIohannaJóhannaSiobhánHannelis

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

Johana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,287
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 246
Best rank ever
#749
2001
Peak year
2005
329 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,967
Count in 2025
80

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,101
1993
Peak year
1993
6 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Johana

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

JohnieJohnnaJohnnyMilanaAryanaBryanaIleanaAvianaSavanaAlianaAitanaAiyanaBreanaDelanaRoxanaQuianaOrianaKeyanaIlianaSolanaYulianaAllanaDayanaJeana

Names with a curve like Johana

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

LizethDenisseKeilaEvelinYahairaKeeleyNataliShylaAracelyJackelineMarlenJacey

Sibling names for Johana

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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