How rare is the name Joanie?

5,429 people in the United States have the first name Joanie, about 1 in 55,633. It ranks #3,727 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JOANIE

#3,727

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,429
About
1 in 55,633
This common or more
82.9%
Who bears it

Of the 5,429 people named Joanie, 79.9% reported their origin as White, 6.8% as Black and 6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Joanie peaked in 1957, when 209 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19312025
Peak year
1957
Births that year
209
In 2025*
63 ▼70%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,549 babies have been given the name since 1931. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Joanie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,459. The largest share of babies named Joanie, 39.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1930s#4,98790
1940s#2,685305
1950s#1,4591,298
1960s#1,6741,150
1970s#2,189821
1980s#2,257946
1990s#6,747257
2000s#10,726184
2010s#9,559233
2020s#6,120265
Silent Generation 1928–454.3%
Baby boom 1946–6439.1%
Generation X 1965–8025%
Millennials 1981–9618.3%
Generation Z 1997–125.1%
2013 and later8.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Joanie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Joanie has been most common in North Carolina (2.6×), Kentucky (2.5×), and Louisiana (2.1×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.65×).

2,334 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Joanie

#3,725 Hanan · 5,431#3,725 Sahar · 5,431#3,728 Ely · 5,426#3,728 Lexus · 5,426

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Joanie, most common first.

#307 Joanne · 181,755#4,321 Johnie · 4,381#4,355 Jonnie · 4,322#8,506 Joannie · 1,703#9,960 Joane · 1,362#10,543 Jonie · 1,257#14,531 Joani · 811

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