girls:
7.8k births since 1896
#1840 (68th percentile)
overall:
7.8k births since 1896
#3049 (61st percentile)
The name Joana is the #3,049 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,809 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 60.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,840 (67.8% percentile) for all time with 7,809 births since 1896.
Joana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for girls in 1896). Birth data for Joana is available in 104 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Joana reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 36.7% percentile (ranked #569) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 180 births per million (ranked 36.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Joana ranks #890 for girls (6.0% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 19.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joana".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Joana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Joana is pronounced as joh-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-A-nuh, at 16.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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