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Johannah

#5,310 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Johannah has been given to 3,113 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,310 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 110 recorded.

Babies named Johannah, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johannah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Hebrew

What Johannah means

Johannah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Johannah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,113 girls were recorded with the name Johannah between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 110 in 2010; its best national rank was #662 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,735 in 2020 to #5,310 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,462 in 2015 to #5,310 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 Johannah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,310
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johannah 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johannah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johannahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johannah was born before 1996 — so the typical Johannah is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,699
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2010s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (633).

Is Johannah 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
+1,760
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+425
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,848
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.8%
Peak was 2010 (110)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#662
1884

Spellings of Johannah

Johannah is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 70.3% against Johannah's 0.47%.

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 Johannah is used

Across 1910–2025, Johannah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 220,815 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Johannah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Johannah around the world

Where Johannah 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
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1964–2006
    #764
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1995–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1990–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Johannah

People whose public names include Johannah, 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.

Johannah in other languages

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

Johanna

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

Johannah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,310
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 425
Best rank ever
#662
1884
Peak year
2010
110 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,113
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Johannah

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

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Names with a curve like Johannah

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

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Sibling names for Johannah

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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