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Joan
Pronounced /d͡ʒoʊn/
Rank in 2024
#1,240
Born in 2024
188
Peak year
1932 · #5
Origin
Catalan, French
Also recorded for boys:220 in 2024 (#1,012)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 188 girls were named Joan, about 1 in every 8,581.
- It peaked in 1932 with 21,044 babies, ranked #5.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 481,016 girls have been named Joan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Joan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.6Greatest1901–27
- 13.1Silent1928–45
- 4.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 33,658 babies, 1.64 per 1,000. Silent: 269,691 babies, 13.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 151,177 babies, 4.22 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,556 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,338 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,604 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,547 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A clipped or hypochoristic form of Joanna, from Latin Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
- A female given name from French, a feminine form of John.
- A male given name from Catalan, a form of John.
- Origin
- Catalan, French
- Say it
- /d͡ʒoʊn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Joan, CC BY-SA 4.0.