Joana

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Joana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name40K records spelled Joana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, Spain

  Also written Jo-Ana

• Spanish given name13K records spelled Joana25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Philippines, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Catalan, French

  Also written Joan, Jo-An, Joán, Jöän, Jöan

• a separate given name7.5K records spelled Joana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Also written Jo-Ana

• Albanian given name6.1K records spelled Joana3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

  Also written Jõanã, Joànà

• Hungarian given name4.0K records spelled Joana63 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, Bulgaria, United States, Germany

  Languages: Hungarian, English, Bulgarian

  Also written Ioana, Yoana, Йоана, Иоана, Іоана

• English given name1.6K records spelled Joana71 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland, Denmark, Philippines

  Languages: English, Finnish, Danish

  Also written Jonna, Joanna, Joenna, เปียโน, Piano

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Joana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 106 years between 1896–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Juana Manuelb. 1339ESnot in their usual nameQueen of Castile and Leon
• Queen Maria Isabel of Spainb. 1797ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1797-1818)
• Maria II of Portugalb. 1819BRnot in their usual nameQueen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
• Princess Francisca of Brazilb. 1824BRnot in their usual namePrincess of Brazil (1824-1898)
• Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavariab. 1857PTnot in their usual namePortuguese and Bavarian Royal (1857–1943)
• Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
• Joana Vicenteb. 1963USAmerican film producer
• Joana Hadjithomasb. 1969LBLebanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1969)
• Joana Mallwitzb. 1986DEGerman conductor
• Joana Ribeirob. 1992PTPortuguese actress and model

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 702 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joana?

We estimate roughly 271 thousand people bear Joana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Joana have the most bearers?

We estimate about 238 thousand people bear Joana in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joana.

How common is Joana compared with other names?

In Brazil, Joana is the 120th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Joana a male or female name?

Joana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Joana mean?

Recorded meaning: ) Joanna: weibl. Vom., Neben­ form von