first name
JOANNE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 181,755 people named Joanne, 84.5% reported their origin as White, 5.4% as Black and 4.5% 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.
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Joanne peaked in 1947, when 6,073 babies got the name.
At least 212,474 babies have been given the name since 1888. 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.
Joanne by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #104. The largest share of babies named Joanne, 45.9%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Joanne is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Joanne has been most common in Massachusetts (3.1×), Vermont (2.4×), and Rhode Island (2.3×), and least common in Nevada (0.16×).
208,401 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Joanne, most common first.
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