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Johna

Girls' name

Feminine form of John

Johna has been given to 2,462 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1963, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Johna, 2024

1 in 669,000

Johna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johna: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Johna means

Johna is a feminine form of John.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Johna is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɑn.ə/ and /ˈd͡ʒɒn.ə/ for Johna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Johna → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Origin, language, and formation

Johna is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,456 girls were recorded with the name Johna between 1925 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,100 in 1963.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Johna between 1995 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1995; its best national rank was #8,283 in 1995.

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 Johna?

Johna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johna 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johna was born before 1973 — so the typical Johna is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,254
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (633).

Is Johna 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (98)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,100
1963

Spellings of Johna

Johna is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 37.9% against Johna's 0.11%.

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 Johna is used

Across 1910–2025, Johna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 262,613 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Missouri1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Kansas1 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. Johna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Johna around the world

Where Johna 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
    1997–2006
    #4,178
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Johna 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
#1,100
1963
Peak year
1963
98 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,456
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,283
1995
Peak year
1995
6 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Johna

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

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Names with a curve like Johna

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

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Sibling names for Johna

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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