Joanne
Pronounced /d͡ʒoʊn/
Pronounced /d͡ʒoʊn/
Babies named Joanne per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
Greatest: 5,163 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Silent: 73,567 babies, 3.56 per 1,000. Boomers: 97,316 babies, 2.72 per 1,000. Gen X: 25,129 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,033 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,618 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,061 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
From Old French Joanne, 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. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
From Wiktionary’s entry for Joanne, CC BY-SA 4.0.