Joann

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Joann is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 120◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 217
  • AUAustralia1 in 305

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈948K ●

across 9 countries

#172 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
540 ●

10M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 120 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

JoanLatin · English●4.4M records
ג'ואןHebrew · Hebrew●4.2K records
โจแอนThai · Thai●72 records
조안Hangul · Korean●57 records
জোনBengali · Bangla●10 records
ᲯოანGeorgian · Georgian●8 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joan in US United States, CA Canada, PH Philippines and 11 more, Joanne in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, SG Singapore and 8 more and Jeanne in FR France, BR Brazil, BE Belgium.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Joann is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#27953,488831K rec.—8Joanne258
FR France#30565,855404K rec.1 in 120566KJeanne349
AU Australia#42379,873289K rec.—101Joanne273
US United States#50296,8307.6M rec.1 in 1.1K297KJoan540
CA Canada#43227,355219K rec.—4Joan213
PH Philippines#80186,684137K rec.——Joan149
IT Italy#14962,06064K rec.—1Joan74
ES Spain#53852,99348K rec.1 in 94454KJoan182
DE Germany#49733,07832K rec.—1Joan138
EG Egypt#24921,71021K rec.——Joan34
BE Belgium#6418,18430K rec.—170Jeanne90
IE Ireland#7416,81124K rec.——Joan124

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.9M78%
  • 141K6%
  • Spanish97K4%
  • German86K3%
  • French24K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,942,42978%
140,8076%
Spanish97,3704%
German86,4893%
French23,8921%

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◐

Joann is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name153K records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jo-Ann

  • Greek given name4.9K records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jo-Ann

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jo-Ann

  • ux given name1.8K records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Jo-Ann

  • Albanian given name362 records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Albania

    Also written Jo-Ann

  • Hebrew given name357 records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Jo-Ann

  • Icelandic given name328 records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iceland, United States

    Also written Jóann

  • Amharic given name303 records spelled Joann2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jo-Ann

35 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.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.5K · 1942

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Joann in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1891–2025
Yearrecords
18916
18935
18945
18996
19009
19016
190211
190310
19048
19055
190613
19079
190816
190915
191020
191128
191223
191331
191458
191565
191672
191790
1918113
191993
1920143
1921153
1922206
1923257
1924386
1925470
1926622
1927784
19281,001
19291,550
19302,131
19312,655
19323,115
19333,209
19344,149
19353,913
19363,886
19373,936
19383,710
19393,994
19403,789
19414,275
19424,506
19434,464
19443,973
19453,465
19463,945
19474,276
19483,799
19493,523
19503,600
19513,422
19523,266
19533,171
19543,063
19552,936
19563,003
19573,057
19583,700
19593,459
19603,409
19613,350
19623,112
19632,652
19642,736
19652,395
19662,117
19671,794
19681,676
19691,634
19701,559
19711,380
19721,101
19731,040
19741,058
1975938
1976801
1977726
1978586
1979635
1980599
1981506
1982509
1983448
1984451
1985399
1986369
1987355
1988331
1989310
1990312
1991279
1992228
1993219
1994197
1995184
1996170
1997172
1998164
1999132
2000140
2001132
2002117
2003125
2004116
200599
200696
2007102
200887
200998
201074
201173
201256
201368
201471
201587
201670
201775
201875
201962
202063
202156
202278
202353
202453
202554

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 130 years between 1891–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

160017001800190020002100Jean Astruc, b. 1684Joan Miró, b. 1893Joan Blondell, b. 1906Margaret Geller, b. 1947Joan Armatrading, b. 1950Chyna, b. 1969Christine Taylor, b. 1971Joann Sfar, b. 1971Melissa Joan Hart, b. 1976Joan González, b. 2002
  • Jean Astrucb. 1684FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician (1684-1766)
  • Joan Mirób. 1893ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)
  • Joan Blondellb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1906–1979)
  • Margaret Gellerb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronomer
  • Joan Armatradingb. 1950GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and musician
  • Chynab. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and actress (1969-2016)
  • Christine Taylorb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1971)
  • Joann Sfarb. 1971FRFrench comics artist, graphic novelist, and film director
  • Melissa Joan Hartb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Joan Gonzálezb. 2002ESnot in their usual nameSpanish 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●

Attested in 53 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Joann
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020149K#372
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024580#2,612
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—330#2,630
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020272#372
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010220#85,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020115#145,757
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—114#7,469
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60#10,790
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202560#534
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202554—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—51#13,489
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202248—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 422 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joann?
We estimate roughly 948 thousand people bear Joann (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Joann have the most bearers?
Joann is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled joanne.
Where is Joann most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joann is densest in France — about 1 in 120 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Joann compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Joann is the 27th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Joann a male or female name?
Joann 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joann” — the 27th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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