Xoana

#11,876 in 2025Girls' name

God is gracious

Xoana has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #11,876 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Xoana, 2025

1 in 414,000

Xoana over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Xoana: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xoana means

Xoana means “God is gracious”, associated with Yôḥānāh.

Origin, language, and formation

Xoana is used in Galician.

Xoana comes through Old Galician-Portuguese Johanna, Latin Johanna, Koine Greek Ἰωάννα and Hebrew יוֹחָנָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jane, Joanna and יְהוֹחָנָן.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Galician, Xoana is pronounced /ˈʃwana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Xoana between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,071 in 2024.

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.

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How common is Xoana?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,876; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Xoana 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xoana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xoanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xoana was born before 2024 — so the typical Xoana is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Xoana 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: −805; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 88.9%; Peak was 2024 (9)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,071; 2024

Spellings of Xoana

Xoana is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 28.0% against Xoana's <0.01%.

Donna28.0%831,641
Joan16.2%481,238
Diana12.4%368,487
Dana6.5%193,555
Joann5.3%156,892
Joanna3.8%111,761
Ana3.8%111,359
Alana2.3%68,264

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.

Xoana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,876
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #11,071; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 9 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Xoana

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

Vyana Vaiana Fana Msgana Giyana Mohana Elvana Luhana Isana Imana Rohana Rhana Ulana Yaana Taana Zolana Nalana Oxana Salana Anana Ylana Ihana Zaiyana Ghana

Sibling names for Xoana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Sydni Leonor Shyann Sydnie Karleigh Rhianna

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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