Joanne

given name · English · Latin script

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

Joanne 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. Recorded meaning: Recent feminine version of John, formed from Joan or Joanna; now established in Ireland.

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, Jeanne in FR France, BR Brazil, BE Belgium and Joann in MX Mexico.

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●

Recent feminine version of John, formed from Joan or Joanna; now established in Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Joanne 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●

  • English3M83%
  • 126K3%
  • Spanish100K3%
  • French47K1%
  • Portuguese35K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,009,26283%
125,5943%
Spanish99,6803%
French46,9211%
Portuguese34,8291%

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◐

Joanne is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name143K records spelled Joanne2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jo-Anne

  • Greek given name5.3K records spelled Joanne2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jo-Anne

  • ux given name3.4K records spelled Joanne2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Jo-Anne

  • Turkish given name3.0K records spelled Joanne3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Jo-Anne

  • a separate given name2.2K records spelled Joanne2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand

    Also written Jo-Anne

  • English (Trinidad & Tobago) given name1.2K records spelled Joanne2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Trinidad & Tobago, United States

    Also written Jo-Anne

  • Lithuanian given name812 records spelled Joanne4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Jo-Anne

64 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●

Joanne is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., altfranzösische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English: from an Old French feminine form of JOHN , Jo(h)anne , and so a doublet of JOAN . This too was revived as a given name in its own right in the first half of the 20th century. It has to some extent been influenced by the independently formed combination Jo Anne . Short form: Jo .

    as a word

  • In nap, John

    as a wordkaikki.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●

02K4K6K8K1900195020006.1K · 1947

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Joanne in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1888–2025
Yearrecords
18885
18936
18955
19028
19039
19048
190514
190719
190819
190916
191028
191124
191235
191352
191455
191584
1916118
1917114
1918171
1919144
1920208
1921233
1922248
1923342
1924475
1925636
1926944
19271,159
19281,649
19292,497
19303,154
19313,757
19323,730
19333,719
19344,543
19354,565
19364,305
19374,333
19384,250
19394,225
19404,418
19414,665
19425,342
19435,270
19444,529
19454,618
19465,506
19476,062
19485,499
19495,746
19505,491
19515,358
19525,351
19535,890
19545,435
19554,987
19564,671
19575,110
19585,928
19595,347
19604,875
19614,616
19624,011
19633,858
19643,575
19653,148
19662,727
19672,340
19682,133
19692,080
19701,954
19711,655
19721,347
19731,299
19741,254
19751,137
1976945
1977917
1978732
1979757
1980702
1981678
1982632
1983565
1984511
1985525
1986459
1987466
1988431
1989461
1990418
1991397
1992328
1993338
1994286
1995274
1996264
1997248
1998236
1999211
2000226
2001188
2002174
2003177
2004184
2005148
2006141
2007149
2008129
2009110
2010103
201193
2012102
201395
2014114
201598
201695
2017109
201890
201999
202072
202170
202281
202370
202468
202566

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 126 years between 1888–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Joy Page, b. 1924Joanne Linville, b. 1928Joanne Woodward, b. 1930Joanna Gleason, b. 1950Joanne Whalley, b. 1964Joanne Harris, b. 1964Joanne K. Rowling, b. 1965Jo Cox, b. 1974Joanne Froggatt, b. 1980Lady Gaga, b. 1986

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 79 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Joanne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020182K#307
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.3K#792
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2K#1,371
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022729—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—710#10,311
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—440#15,518
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—388#5,454
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—377#2,572
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—280#3,738
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—256#4,386
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—225#3,244
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020206#307

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 894 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joanne?
We estimate roughly 948 thousand people bear Joanne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Joanne have the most bearers?
Joanne is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled joanne.
Where is Joanne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joanne is densest in France — about 1 in 120 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Joanne compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Joanne is the 27th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Joanne a male or female name?
Joanne 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 Joanne mean?
Recorded meaning: Recent feminine version of John, formed from Joan or Joanna; now established in Ireland.
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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, “Joanne” — the 27th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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