as a First Name
From Old French 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.
| 200th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 300,830
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Joanne per capita
- 1934
- marked the height of its popularity
99.99%
0.01%
63%
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55+
33%
30-54
30-54
3%
13-29
13-29
1%
0-12
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