Joane

Meaning & origin●

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◐

Joane is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name5.4K records spelled Joane5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Jo-Ane, Joané, Joäne

• a separate given name1.5K records spelled Joane2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Joané

• Japanese given name177 records spelled Joane2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Japan, Canada, Malaysia

  Also written Jo-Ane

• Danish given name84 records spelled Joane5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Joané

46 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●

Joane 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of jo

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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) — 76 years between 1921–2006. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Joane Cardinal-Schubertb. 1942CACanadian poet, painter (1942–2009)
• Joane Hétub. 1958CACanadian composer
• Joane Martelb. 1962CAuniversity professor
• Joane Deraîcheb. 1963CACanadian photographer (born 1963)
• Joane Labelleb. 1967CACanadian singer and composer
• Joane Pouechb. 1982FRFrench paleontologist
• Joane Florvilb. 1989HTHaitian immigrant to Chile whose death of liver failure ignited conversations about racism in Chilean society
• Joane Gadoub. 2007FRFrench footballer

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 · 157 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joane?

We estimate roughly 8.3 thousand people bear Joane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Joane have the most bearers?

We estimate about 6.4 thousand people bear Joane in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joane.

Where is Joane most common?

Joane is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.

Is Joane a male or female name?

Joane 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 Joane mean?

Recorded meaning: Obsolete form of Joan.