How rare is the name Joanna?

104,730 people in the United States have the first name Joanna, about 1 in 2,884. It ranks #534 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JOANNA

#534

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
104,730
About
1 in 2,884
This common or more
59.7%
Who bears it

Of the 104,730 people named Joanna, 59.7% reported their origin as White, 25.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.9% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Joanna peaked in 1984, when 3,353 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1984
Births that year
3,353
In 2025*
997 ▼70%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 112,067 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Joanna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #267. The largest share of babies named Joanna, 29.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#685290
1890s#718389
1900s#878391
1910s#9711,186
1920s#8452,233
1930s#5953,914
1940s#6194,709
1950s#7175,151
1960s#5529,208
1970s#34615,323
1980s#26722,370
1990s#38116,356
2000s#51012,994
2010s#59011,414
2020s#6476,139
Before 19010.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.9%
Silent Generation 1928–456.4%
Baby boom 1946–6410.2%
Generation X 1965–8019.6%
Millennials 1981–9629.4%
Generation Z 1997–1217.9%
2013 and later13%

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 Joanna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Joanna has been most common in California (1.7×), Arizona (1.3×), and Nevada (1.2×), and least common in North Dakota (0.2×).

107,009 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 Joanna

#532 Ronnie · 105,401#533 Charlie · 104,901#535 Dolores · 104,660#536 Jeanne · 104,565

Spelled almost the same

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

#307 Joanne · 181,755#372 Joann · 149,035#905 Johanna · 49,738#2,352 Joana · 10,711#2,741 Johnna · 8,555#3,755 Jonna · 5,311#17,057 Joyanna · 653#19,578 Joanny · 538

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