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Johanne

Girls' name

God is gracious, through Joanne

Johanne has been given to 1,452 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1939, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Johanne, 2021

1 in 339,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johanne: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Joanne

Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek and Latin

What Johanne means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Johanne is used in English, Danish, German and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joanne, Johanna, Johannes, Jane, Joanna and Jóhanna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Johanne is pronounced /juˈhanːə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,452 girls were recorded with the name Johanne between 1895 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1939; its best national rank was #1,118 in 1939.

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 Johanne?

Johanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 339,000
10 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 164,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
234,975 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johanne 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 2021 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 234,975 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johanne was born before 1951 — so the typical Johanne is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
753
People you could plausibly meet
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1930s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (297).

Is Johanne 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 1939 (42)
Years since peak
86
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,118
1939

Spellings of Johanne

Johanne is not the most common spelling — Joanne is, with 24.3% against Johanne's 0.17%.

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 Johanne is used

Across 1910–2025, Johanne was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 174,789 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 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. Johanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Johanne around the world

Where Johanne 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.

  • Scotland
    1974–1993
    #623
    in 1993
  • Ireland
    1969–1988
    #407
    in 1988
  • France
    1941–2025
    #1,205
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #47
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1944–1984
    #468
    in 1984

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Johanne 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
#1,118
1939
Peak year
1939
42 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,452
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Johanne

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

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Sibling names for Johanne

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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